In Southern Asia and in parts of Africa there is a very serious disease of horses known as surra which is caused by a similar parasite (Trypanosoma evansi).
The Transmission of the Trypanosoma evansi by House-flies and Other Experiments Pointing to the Probable Identity of Surra of India and Nagana or Tsetse-fly Disease of Africa.
Trypanosomes and Trypanosomiasis, with Special Reference to Surra in the Philippine Islands.
Other parasites which live in the blood cause serious diseases known as surra and nagana (p.
Surra is not known to occur in the United States, but it is more or less common in the Philippine Islands and India.
Surra is a wet-weather disease, occurring chiefly during or immediately after heavy rainfalls, floods, or inundations.
Surra in equines and camels is said to be an invariably fatal disease, but cattle occasionally recover from it.
If, in experiment, infected blood is fed to a healthy animal, the latter may contract surra in case it has an abraded or wounded spot in the mouth; but if no part of the lining of the alimentary canal is wounded, infection does not take place.
Thus dogs and cats may contract the disease by wounding the lining of the mouth (as with splinters of bone) while feeding on the carcasses of surra subjects.
All evidence now available seems to indicate that surra is strictly a wound disease, namely, that the parasite may enter the body only through a wound of some kind.
A heavy silence fell upon the plaza, punctuated only by the raucous breathing of a big American cavalry-horse, dying of the surra by the cuartel.
At present the surra is misapplied, and serves only to feed a swarm of persons in a state of complete idleness, while the poor are left destitute, and not the smallest encouragement is given to industry.
The Surra is made up at Constantinople in a great number of small packets, each containing the stipulated sum, and indorsed with the name of the individual to whom it is destined.
Before the power of the Sherifs was broken by the chief Sherif Serour, the former extorted from every caravan that came to Mekka considerable sums, besides the surra to which they were entitled.
The Surra for Mekka is distributed in the mosque, under the windows of the Kadhy's house, after the departure of the Hadj.
The Hadj caravans now ceased; few pilgrims arrived by way of Yembo; Saoud, soon after, prohibited the passage to the town to all Turkish pilgrims; and the surra or stipends were of course withheld.
He likewise fixed the surra from Constantinople, or, as it is called, the Greek surra, at thirty-one thousand ducats per annum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
