Man is susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease, but it never appears during the frequent epidemics of scarlatina.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
So the question remains whether the man who denied sickness in the cows to begin with, and adduced professional evidence of it, did not later acknowledge the foot-and-mouth disease as a blind to hide the real source of the trouble in scarlatina in his own family or in the family of an employee.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
In the Hendon outbreak inoculations were made on calves from the slight eruption on the cow's teats, and they had a slight eruption on the lips and a form of inflammation of the kidneys, which Dr. Klein thought resembled that of scarlatina.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler