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smissible disease of cattle,
characterized - by
progressive anemia”.
Along with blood-sucking
insects, like flies, mosquitos,
and ticks, carrying the
disease and infecting cattle,
Dr. Carr pointed out the
disease can be mechanically
carried by man.
“If you are using dirty
instruments when castrating
calves or if you use the same
needle when giving in
jections to several cattle, the
blood of a positive animal
can be carried to a healthy
animal,” he stated.
Carr also noted the disease
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that is deer, goats, and
sheep.
One Adams County cat
tleman who is greatly
concerned about what’s
being done to control the
disease in Pennsylvania is
Frank Darc&y. ' ’
Last year, Dacceysaid, he
had several cows that were
diagnosed as having
anaplasmosis.
Darcey said he knew
something was wrong with
several of his older cows
when he noticed they looked
“droopy” and stood along
the fence with their heads
down. He said the cows lost
about 200 pounds and quit
milking in a short period of
time.
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“When the veterinarian
got to the farm and took
blood samples, instead of
being bright red, the cow’s
blood looked like pink
'champagne,” he said.
In animals over 5 years
old, Darcey pointed out, the
stress on the cattle generally
leads to death if it’s not
treated immediately.
In calves, ,he said, the
animals appear sick for
about a half hour and then
they’re fine. In two-year
olds, the animals look sick
for about a half day, and
then recover. But, once
afflicted with the disease,
these animals remain
carriers unless they’re
treated, he added.
The treatment of
anaplasmosis takes a lot of
time and money, Darcey
recalled. He said he treated
his positive cattle with a
drug that cost $2O a bottle,
and it took a 500 cc bottle to
treat each cow.
Unfortunately, the drug, if
given to a pregnant cow, will
cause an abortion, and
Darcey said he lost a calf
bred to a top Polled Hereford
bull last Fall.
After treatment, the cow
will come back into her milk
and will be able to nurse her
calf at her side, he noted.
The administered antibiotic
will cure the animal, but it
will be susceptible to getting
the disease over again.
The treatment of
anaplasmosis required a lot
of handling and labor, said
Darcey. “The shots hurt the
cows when we were giving
the injections in the leg
muscles—we were giving 50
cc’s twice a day. So, we
switched and started giving
them a 100 cc injection
directly into the stomach.
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Darcey said he had heard
of a live virus vaccine,
available m the Midwest but
not allowed in Maryland and
questioned in Pennsylvania,
for the prevention of
anaplasmosis. He said it
involved a two shot senes,
administered to open cows.
The draw-back to the
vaccine, he said, was that
the whole herd had to be left
unbred until the two shot
series was completed. And
then, he added, it requires a
booster shot every year.
Darcey’s concern over
anaplasmosis in his area is
well founded because he said
he knows of several farms
where there were positive
diagnoses of the disease. One
farm, he said, had 98 out of
500 animals tested come
back with positive results.
This herd is not being
treated, he said.
In still another case,
Darcey stated, a herd of
commercial cattle was
entirely positive when
tested. Since then, all of
these cattle have been
shipped out of the area.
“A number of people were
trying to blame the death of
these cattle on the fact that
they were being fed apple
pumice—but it was
anaplasmosis,” Darcey
said.
Cattle have not been the
sole species plagued with the
disease. A veterinary source
noted that there have been
several mysterious deaths in
the southwestern part of
Adams County m sheep and
goat herds.
After the goats had the
specific card test done on
their blood, they were
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diagnosed as positive for
anaplasmosis. A
microscopic look at the blood
turned up red blood cells that
had the disease charac
teristics.
Several sheep have died
suspiciously in the past year,
too, noted the veterinarian.
It appears that
anaplasmosis is a disease
that is somewhat confined to
Adams County’s south
western edge. But, said the
source, a company that
manufactures the vaccine
for anaplasmosis from Fort
Dodge, lowa, has cited cases
in other areas of the state.
What helps ,to spread the
disease and hinders its
control in Adams County, is
the resident deer
populations. The deer are
protected on land owned by
the national park in Get
tysburg.
After the outbreak of
anaplasmosis in the Get
tyburg area last year, a
spokesman for the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture stated, a special
team was sent to run a
surveillance of the area to
watch for any spread of the
disease. Farmers were
offered free testing services
by PDA, he said.
The first case was iden
tified October 19, 1979 stated
Dr. John Dick, a PDA
veterinarian in charge of
cattle. A total of 38 herds
were tested with some
reactors showing up in a
couple of herds.
The last reported case of
the disease was recorded on
January 30,1980.
Dr. Dick stated that as far
as PDA was concerned the
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