The people told me of a cattle disease that plagues this district severely. If the cattle are flayed while their blood is still warm and if the slightest drop of blood gets on to the skin of those flaying them, the skin turns black, is eaten away and goes as if it had been burned. In some cases the whole hand has swollen up and festered. In one case it even affected someone’s face after blood had come in contact with it. Many people have actually died from this, so no one dares flay the animals and they bury them at once instead. They bathe the animals once a day as a preventative measure and they say that that keeps them immune.