Four in five UK sheep farms have been exposed to the abortion-causing parasite Toxoplasma gondii, according to early results ...

Early results from the 2025 FlockCheck diagnostic scheme, run by MSD Animal Health, reveal that 80% of farms tested so far ...

However, infection rates as high as 64 percent for sheep, 45 percent for swine and 38 percent for cattle were found among animals to be used as human food. Natural infections of toxoplasmosis have ...

Sheep vet Fiona Lovatt from Flock Health outlines what can be done to manage infection in the run-up to breeding and how to diagnose it in a flock. It’s a parasite that causes toxoplasmosis in ...

Four out of five UK sheep flocks are infected with toxoplasmosis and at least a third of all flocks are carrying the bacteria that causes enzootic abortion. But while the management procedures for ...

Sheep farmers in England, Scotland and Wales, can also ask their vet to blood test their flock for exposure to toxoplasmosis and enzootic abortion (EAE), following the launch of MSD Animal Health’s ...

Instead, they happened after a pregnant woman helped a sheep, goat or cow deliver their ... would be a six-week course of two antibiotics. Toxoplasmosis from cats is much more of a concern.

Photo / Max Frethey / Waimea Weekly A Tasman farmer wants tougher rules for cats after toxoplasmosis devastated his flock of sheep, costing him $14,000 in damages. Lloyd Faulkner has been farming ...