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Excerpt from The Bulletin of the Imperial College of Agriculture and Forestry, Morioka, Japan, Vol. 3: Investigations on the Pathological Anatomy of Infectious Anaemia of the Horse
In the most important horse breeding districts of Japan, such as Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yama gata and other prefectures, outbreaks of a peculiar horse disease was first noticed about fifteen years ago, and many hundreds have died. This disease is a progressive pernicious anaemia of an infectious nature, and was named by the authorities, Infectious Anaemia of the Horse.
Since almost all the affected horses are sure to die, it has aroused considerable alarm among horse breeders in Japan. So to declare the causative factors and find out the practical methods of treatment and prevention, The Special Committee for the Investigation of Infectious Anaemia of the Horse was organized by the Government in 1909, and has been put under the control of the Chief of the Bureau of Horse Administration, and the Committee has made many researches on this subject.
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