A question on farmers minds as grazing gets underway in parts of the country is should cattle be dosed for worms before going ...

The freshwater fish it is made from are at high risk of being contaminated with parasitic worms known as liver fluke. Once in ...

Depending on the degree of the effects of the worms, animals fail to thrive, some become infertile and others will even abort ...

Testing young lambs through their first grazing season is becoming an increasingly popular technique to monitor fluke risk, ...

These include blood sucking leeches and liver fluke worms which are a challenge to livestock farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda.In Uganda the major challenge is liver fluke worms ...

Soil-transmitted worm diseases have decreased recently, but parasitic diseases are on the rise, such as dog and cat roundworms, large and small liver flukes and pork and beef tapeworms. The medical ...

Focusing on these “sentinel” lambs for signs of liver fluke infection can save time, effort and money by informing flockmasters of the disease challenge. In the face of increasing resistance ...