Shipping fever

Streptomycin is widely used generally in combination with penicillin for treatment of cattle with shipping fever, mastitis or after surgery and trauma. 

Sulfapyridine is used to treat dermatitis herpetiformis and also has been used by veterinarians against pneumonia, shipping fever, and foot rot of cattle, This compound (2-sulfanylamidopvridine) is made by condensation of 2-aminopyridinc with the appropriate sulfonyl chloride. Its formula is shown below. 

Prophylactically active agaiust a wide range of viruses, including those causing canine distemper, lymphomatosis in fowl, shipping fever in cattle, transmissible gastroenteritis iu swine, and coryza and other upper respiratory illnesses, as well as against ECHO viruses, enteroviruses in monkeys, MM neurotropic virus, Semliki Forest virus, and NEF 1 poliomyelitis virus. Antitumor activity demonstrated in experimental leukemia and sarcoma. 

The jet plane has made it easy to travel to and from previously inaccessible parts of the world, for business or vacation. Infectious diseases or agents that transmit these diseases can, therefore, be rapidly transferred to countries in which the population has never encountered the diseases, so that the infection rapidly spreads throughout the population. Such transport of pathogens is reminiscent of the transmission of diseases that were previously unknown in North America but were transported from Africa in the slave ships. For example, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits the virus that causes yellow fever, was probably transported in water barrels on these ships. 

By March 1864 health was still an ever-present concern, but only then could Waller see the Union Navy that stood between him and much-needed supplies. Camped near Smithfield, North Carolina, he wrote to his sister, I fear if we stay here long we will have plenty of sickness. There is small pox here now in the fall they have yellow fever and cholera. i9 But he added ominously, I could see the billows on the ocean rising like mountains looking as white as cotton away in the distance the masts of ships were visable [sic], supposed to be the [Union] blockading fleet. 20... 

A Description of the Jail Distemper, as it appeared among the Spanish Prisoners, at Winchester, in the Year 1780, with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying ffie contagion, which gave rise to it, 8 , London, 1795 (iv 11., 248 pp.) id. An Account of the Experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, on board the Union Hospital Ship, to determine the effect of... 

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