Word: slobbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sick animals go lame. They also slobber at the mouth and smack their lips as though trying to get rid of something. The mouth is sore from the characteristic lesions of the disease. When animals are infected they must be killed and their bodies destroyed by fire or quicklime, else buried deeply, to prevent the disease spreading to other animals. Because of such thorough eradication the U. S., which has had several epidemics of foot-&-mouth disease, now has practically no cases. In the Argentine the disease still prevails. That is one good reason for preventing the importation of Argentine...