Shepherds must know what the main infectious and parasitic diseases are, and how they can be prevented. To this end, each farmer must have, at the beginning of the year, a plan drawn up with the veterinarian, to include prophylactic actions and the period when such actions must be carried ...
Objectives—To measure the exposure of a group of farmers to organophosphate pesticide in sheep dip, and to record the incidence of symptoms after exposure. Design—A prospective study of the autumn 1992 dipping period. Working methods were assessed by questionnaire. Absorption of organophosphate pesti...
Agricultural Workers' DiseasesPesticidesPrevalenceRegression AnalysisMental DisordersOccupational ExposureRural HealthAdultAgedObjectives: To explore the prevalence and pattern of neuropsychiatric symptoms in past users of sheep dip and other pesticides. Methods: From a postal survey of men born between 1933 ...
Biology and Diseases of Ruminants: Sheep, Goats, and Cattle Margaret L. Delano, ... Wendy J. Underwood, in Laboratory Animal Medicine (Second Edition), 2002 III. DISEASES This section focuses primarily on the more common diseases affecting sheep, goats, and cattle in the United States and el...
This book deals from a veterinary viewpoint with the diseases of sheep encountered in Germany and other countries. The section on helminths is on pages 231 to 280. The distribution, aetiology, biology, epizootiology, pathology, symptoms, diagnosis and control are given for each infection, as wel...
(Moss 1998). High population densities resulted in extensive pollution from domestic sewage that contaminated water supplies and had severe public health implications in the Victorian era with outbreaks of waterborne diseases like typhoid and cholera being common (Newson 1997). The use of rivers as ...
sheep diseasesIN New Zealand, Askew and his co-workers have shown that cobalt plays a vital part in the healthy life of sheep and that small supplements of cobalt salts will cure sheep suffering from a type of an忙mia. Sheep on Dartmoor are liable to a disease very similar in symptoms ...
The disease resistance phenotype is closely related to immunomodulatory function and immune tolerance and has far-reaching implications in animal husbandry and human health. Microbes play an important role in the initiation, prevention, and treatment of diseases, but the mechanisms of host–microbiota in...
Biology and Diseases of Ruminants (Sheep, Goats, and Cattle) Wendy J.UnderwoodDVM, MS, DACVIM, ...AdamSchoellDVM, DACLAM, inLaboratory Animal Medicine (Third Edition), 2015 ATaxonomy Sheep,goats, and cattle are ungulates, ‘hooved’ animals that are members of the Order Artiodactyla (animals...
One of these diseases was a condition known as scrapie observed inMerino sheepin Spain in 1732 (Table 2, top). This disease, in which sheep obsessively scrape themselves against trees, fence posts, and other obstacles, also manifests a variety of symptoms affecting the nervous system: altered...