HOG CHOLERA, ERYSIPELAS, FOOT AND MOUTH AND SHEEP POX EPIZOOTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200630005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Hog Cholera, Erysipelas, Foot and Mouth and Sheep
Pox Epizootics
USSR
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Q. You have previously supplied information concerning the incidence of
rinderpest in the USSR during the late 1920s and its later appearance
in cattle imported from Turkey in 1936 and 1937
Please describe the other important epizootics n the. Ubbii which
occurred prior to your departure from the USSR and of which you have
first-hand knowledge.
A. 1. All of Georgia was affected by the hog cholera epizootic whicn lasted
from the beginning of 1933 to the beginning of 1934, Ninety percent
of the swine population of Georgia either died or was butchered. Large
numbers of poultry and rabbits in Georgia also died and it was thought
for awhile that the same virus was killing both the swine and the other
animals. It was discovered later that the disease was a. mixed virus
disease and that, while both swine and poultry were succumbina, they
were being killed by different agents. AB I recall it, the poultry
and rabbits did not begin to sicken and die until sometime after the
swine population became afflicted. At that time the USSR did not have
a satisfactory hog cholera vaccine. A good vaccine has since oeen
developed, as I believe is generally well known.
2, in 1935 there was an erysipelas epizootic in Georgia which lasted for
three months. About 40 percent of the swine in Georgia were lost during
this period.
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3. During 1935 and 1936, a serious foot and mouth disease epizootic affected
all of Georgia and Armenia, as well as Turkey. In both Georgia and Armenia
the losses were as follows: cattle, approximately 40 percent; sheep,
approximately, 40 percent; swine, 20 to 30 percent.
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4. In 1938, in the Daghesivn area of the northern Caucasus, there was a shee-gcal
pox epizootic which resulted in a 100 percent loss of wool for that year.
None of the sheep died, however. Veterinary students from all over the
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USSR were mobilized against this outbreak. a group of
students from the Federal Veterinary College of Erevan which went to
Dagestan. vaccinated 6o thousand lambs during the month 50X1
in the area - two thousand a day. roubles a day for this
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outbreaks of Piroplasmosis (Texas fever) in both Georgia and Armenia.
Losses were not serious.
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