Tag: diseases
Bovine coronavirus and diarrhoea in young calves
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Bovine coronavirus is one of the pathogens frequently associated with calf diarrhoea.
Calf diarrhoea has several potentially fatal outcomes, such as...
Protect your livestock from two-host ticks
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Ticks are small, external parasitic arachnids that belong to the superfamily Ixodoidea. When people or animals are bitten by these...
Malignant catarrhal fever: How to keep fatalities to a minimum
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Malignant catarrhal fever or snotsiekte is responsible for the death of thousands of head of cattle in South Africa...
Bluetongue: Practical and effective control in sheep
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The negative impact of bluetongue has been widely felt by livestock producers and their flocks over the past few...
Eradicate bluetongue once and for all
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Bluetongue has been prevalent amongst sheep since the importation of the first Merinos into South Africa in 1789.
The Orbivirus...
Brown stomach worm: A parasite to be reckoned with
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The brown stomach worm is one of the most important roundworm species that infect cattle (Ostertagia ostertagi) and sheep...
Black quarter targets especially growing animals
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Clostridium bacteria are responsible for diseases such as black quarter, malignant oedema, uterine gangrene and gas gangrene. The infection...
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR): Save your herd from taking its last...
Many farmers and feedlot owners have first-hand experience of the damage respiratory diseases can cause to a cattle farming enterprise. Although pneumonia is a...
Extensive research conducted on disease resistance
Every year animal diseases lead to millions of rand worth of production losses. Since control is becoming increasingly more expensive and challenging, scientists are...
