Rampant worm infection kills 400 sheep in one week

Team Udayavani, Feb 23, 2018, 5:16 PM IST

Kolar: 

More than 400 sheep infected with the round worm illness died in Mulabagilu taluk in one week.

Veterinarians say that the contamination is being caused by the sheep drinking polluted water from lakes and lakes which topped off amid abundant rains in November 2017. The larvae that have entered the sheep’s stomachs in this way have brought forth inside their digestive organs, at long last choking them to death. The sheep rearers are stunned by the extent of their loss.

There are 22 veterinary clinics in the urban and country regions of the taluk. The sheeps are being sterilized there. But the experts are having an extreme time checking the spread of the disease. At the point when the shepherds take the sheep out for grazing in the meadows, the animals again drink the dirtied lake waters and get contaminated once more.

The parasitic round worms feast upon all the blood and supplements in the sheep’s body at last killing it. The rearers had moved toward the vets for an antibody earlier. In any case, the latter had declined to offer it to their animals. Since the sheep are dying in hundreds and rearers are in rush to auction their sheep, the outcome is that sheep costs have tumbled to unequalled low.

Animal Husbandry department officers said that sheep must not be permitted to drink lake water. “They must be given the pumpset water utilized for fields. Round worm tablets are being given free of cost at vet clinics,” they informed.