Worms, also known as internal parasites, are a significant health concern in sheep farming. They can affect animal welfare ...

Fall is the time when goat, sheep and camelid owners start to see problems with meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis). Unlike intestinal worms, which go to work in an animal’s stomach or ...

Routine monitoring is a vital component of adequate parasite control in sheep and we are used to seeing stomach worms and liver fluke. This September we encountered an unusual suspect with levels ...

Arusha. Pastoralist communities in Ngorongoro District have called on the government to prioritise research into Coenurosis, a parasitic disease that continues to kill large numbers of goats and sheep ...

In her book Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand states that in the 1930s racehorse jockeys trying to lose weight would swallow a capsule containing a tapeworm egg. The worms would then mature in the ...

The rare tapeworm, echinococcus granulosus, usually is transferred between animals with hooves, such as moose or sheep, and canids, such as dogs, wolves or coyotes.

The patient was officially diagnosed with a hydatid cyst, a parasitic bubble that forms when someone contracts the aforementioned tapeworm through contact with the worm-filled feces of dogs, sheep ...

Thus Wetzel1 describes the feeding habits of Chabertia ovina (Gmelin, 1790) from the large intestine of the sheep and says: ” Longitudinal sections of specimens attached to the mucosa show that ...

Hydatid tapeworm. Definitive host: Carnivores such as dogs, wolves, foxes, dingos. Intermediate host: Herbivore such as sheep, pigs, kangaroos. Prevalence & Distribution: The tapeworm infection is ...

If you're passing through the Pennines, you might want to avoid the village of Denshaw. Its population was decimated by a tapeworm outbreak ten years ago, those that remain relax by throwing sheep ...

THREE to four per cent of lines of sheep at abattoirs in Victoria over the past few years have one or more animals infected with tape worm in them, a national study has shown.