At Buenos Aires last week Dr. Jose Lignieres, French bacteriologist who has worked in the Argentine for the past 30 years, told Argentina's President Hipolito Irigoyen he was certain that he had developed a vaccine against foot-&-mouth disease.
Foot-&-mouth disease is an acute, highly communicable disease, chiefly of cloven-footed animals. Domestic animals suffer from it more frequently than do wild ones. Besides beeves it sometimes afflicts sheep, goats, hogs, horses, dogs, cats, camels, buffalo, bison, antelope, chamois, llama, giraffe. Man, especially children, catch the disease from infected animals by ingesting unpasteurized milk,...
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