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| The horse plague — sketches about town during the epidemic, by Theodore R. Davis. From Harper’s weekly : a journal of civilization. 1872 |
On the evening of October 21st only a few animals were affected, but on the morning of the 22d there was scarcely an animal of the equine species that was not affected. Horses, mules, and even a zebra. More than twenty thousand were suffering in different degrees. 1
(See also Influenza before 1918, part II: 1872)
- Annual report of the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey. By The New Jersey State Dept. of Health, 1877 (“Epizootic influenza”, p. 160) [↩]
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