Earl Jarboe Takes Pasteur for Rabies 1919

JARBOE, MILLER

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/26/2016 at 19:56:42

Dubuque Telegraph Herald, May 15, 1919

BITTEN BY HOG,
RABIES IS FEARED
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MARSHALLTOWN FARM HAND TO
TAKE PASTEUR TREATMENT
TO PREVENT
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Marshalltown, Ia., May 15,
Because it developed that a hog which had bitten a Earl Jarboe, farm hand living east of the city, was afflicted with rabies, Jarboe yesterday submitted to an injection of anti-rabies serum and will continue to receive injection for twenty-one days, in the hopes of warding off a case of hydrophobia.

Last Saturday, while attempting to doctor a sick hog, the animal bit Jarboe on the right thumb. Precautions against infection were taken immediately and a veterinarian who was called to examine the hog sent the animal’s brain to Iowa City for analysis. Yesterday the word was received that the hog had rabies, and Jarboe immediately began treatment. Another hog from the same herd died Tuesday of symptoms that indicate the same disease. The herd is owned by E. G. Miller of this city, who bought several hundred head of hogs in Arkansas three weeks ago and shipped them north to be fed on his farms. It is believed that the two hogs which died were bitten by some animal having rabies before they were sold to Miller.