Texas Fever

diseased spleen

 Fig.1. Shows the spleen of an acute fatal case of Texas Fever. This figure shows the narrow end of the spleen.

Fig.2. This shows the spleen of a healthy steer. Although the animal used in figure 2 weighed one-half more than that animal shown in figure 1, the weight of the diseased spleen was nearly three times that of the healthy spleen.

 

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