A Study of the most destructive recorded episode of equine influenza in history.
Equine Influenza Devastates America
That would have been the headline in the Autumn of 1872 if the journalists in New York could have correlated the information pouring into The New York Times about the spread of the worst equestrian catastrophe in the history of the nation – and perhaps the world. Imagine a transportation disaster that monstrous, and then imagine if it had been totally forgotten today.
That’s the story of how nearly all the horses were stricken.
That’s the story of how the greatest equine medical disaster in American history was re-discovered by a group of equestrian researchers.
That’s the story of the Great Epizootic.
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