It causes a disease in goats called contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP). Mycoplasmal bacteria have been found in the pleural cavities of cattle suffering from pleuropneumonia. About 30 stragglers died from tick fever or pleuropneumonia. Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia was inoculated on the property in 1950. In 1921 the station was mostly quarantined to control an infection of pleuropneumonia. Most cattle are of the typanotolerant N'Dama breed and problem diseases include contagious bovine pleuropneumonia. In 1931 80 head of cattle were found to have pleuropneumonia in one muster. Prang died of pleuropneumonia on June 15, 1909, at the Glendale Sanitarium in Los Angeles. Pleuropneumonia was announced to be eradicated in Australia by 1973.