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The continuance of glanders is largely due to want
of promptitude in detecting disease, to delay in killing
diseased horses, and in taking proper precautions
against infection.
By the vigilance of owners and the adoption of proper
precautions against infection, healthy studs may be
kept free from glanders.
Suppression of Glanders.
Horses weeded out from studs should not be sold
until it has been ascertained that they are free from
disease. The practice of selling weeded-out horses at
auction, without such precaution, is a fruitful means
of spreading glanders.
Horses purchased at auction from other London
stables should invariably be malleined before being
drafted into the purchaser's stud.
Horses that have been turned out to grass with
strange horses should be malleined before being replaced
in the owner's stud.
When glanders is in a stud it can be got rid of only
by killing all horses infected, and by thoroughly
cleansing and disinfecting the premises.
The presence of disease in a stud may be detected by
frequent careful inspection. The injection of mallein
by a veterinary surgeon skilled in the work should be
adopted in doubtful cases.
A horse with any discharge from the nostrils, or
swelling of the glands under the jaws, or any of the
symptoms set out above, should be at once isolated,
and reported to the Inspector.