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IN a paper on this subject read before the Section of Comparative Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine on April 23, Mr. F. Blakemore said that swine influenza has been extensively studied in America and a somewhat similar disease named Ferkelgrippe has been described in Germany and most European countries, including Northern Ireland. It has not been recorded in Great Britain, but many clinicians maintain that a specific pneumonia causes considerable loss, so that it is important to study the etiology of the disease and ascertain its relationship to conditions investigated elsewhere. An outbreak of influenza affecting pigs 10-14 weeks old in which the symptoms were typical of those described by Shope in America was investigated. In severe cases there was a lobular pneumonia affecting principally the anterior lobes. The mortality was low but recovery was slow.
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Swine Influenza in Britain. Nature 147, 605 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147605b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147605b0