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Ticks and Prejudice. As a young BAI inspector in the early 1900s, John Mohler set out to rid the U.S. of cattle tick fever...
...archetype of thousands of Government workers who serve their country well, grinding away at their jobs, oblivious of politicians and political upheavals. He had done more than any other American to rid the country of the dread diseases that plague livestock-bovine tuberculosis, foot-& -mouth disease, cattle tick fever and Bang's disease. So doing he had helped raise the whole standard of health...
Science had proved that ticks carried the fever germs; the obvious remedy was to dip the cattle in great vats of arsenic and kill the ticks. In the South, John Mohler ran smack into cow-pasture prejudice...
...cattle had ticks and my father's cattle had ticks. . . ." Long and loud Pitchfork Ben argued for the inalienable right of his cattle to have ticks. John Mohler countered with logic. Said he: "Your grandfather also had rattlesnakes." After untold arsenic baths, the South was free of tick fever...
Whether acute or chronic, the disease rarely kills anybody. But it often makes a patient wish he were dead. Between 11 and 20% of U.S. dairy cattle are infected with the undulant fever organism in one of its three forms. Most dangerous to man is Brucella suis. Experts used to guess that 10% of U.S. citizens were infected with Brucella and that 1% of those infected were ill with undulant fever at any one time. But the work of the Indiana doctors may eventually prove that there are many more than that...