Things to know when life gets going again

[Sam Jones]

Are we confusing this with hoof and mouth disease from the same period?

Sam in Austin


Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
> When I was growing up in Central Texas farm, there were discussions about
> "black leg" which, I believe, referred to bovine anthrax.  The diagnostic
> technique described was to run you hand down the animal's leg and if it
felt
> like "old parchment" then that animal was destroyed.  And burned.
Anybody
> recall something like this from the Forties or Fifties?
>
> Wayne

I do. Anyone remember _THE COW KILLERS_? The book about the
veterinarians in Mexico & Texas who stopped a number of bovine diseases by
killing off
whole herds of ganadaria? And the scene in _HUD_?