FAVUS HERPETICUS, OR MOUSE FAVUS

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Immense stores of wheat have accumulated in certain districts in Australia for several years past because of the lack of shipping to carry it to the foreign markets. This wheat is placed in sacks and stored in great piles. The presence of these quantities of readily available food led to such rapid multiplication of mice, particularly field mice, that the control of these rodents and the saving of the wheat threatened to become a serious problem. The mice, however, were attacked by a virulent skin disease, which reduced their numbers rapidly. The damage already done to sacks and wheat necessitated the rebagging and shifting of a large portion of the grain. Men employed in this work and women engaged in mending gnawed and torn bags were in many cases attacked by a skin infection, apparently of murine origin. Accounts of this disease both in mice and in man have appeared

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