List of infectious sheep and goat diseases

Ewe with bare patches on rear end from scraping

Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat.[1] As such the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.

Bluetongue virus particle
A sheep showing clinical symptoms of facial eczema.
E. granulosus life cycle
Typical arched back stance of lamb Nutritional muscular dystrophy, a nutrional deficiency disease

References

  1. Pugh, D. G. (2002). Sheep and Goat Medicine. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-9052-1.
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