MEAT BORNE DISEASES TO HUMAN FROM SHEEP AND GOATS

MEAT BORNE DISEASES TO HUMAN

Diseases from Sheep & Goats Meat

1.     Brucellosis

2.     Black Quarter (Black leg)

3.     Enterotoxemia (Pulpy kidney)

4.     Infectious Necrotic Hepatitis (Black disease)

5.     Caseous Lymphadenitis

6.     Scrapie

7.     Sheep and Goat Pox

8.     Rift Valley Fever

9.     Contagious Ecthyma (Contagious Pustular Dermatitis, Orf)

10   Bluetongue (BT, Catarrhal fever of sheep,"Soremuzzle disease)

11. Pulmonary Adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte, Driving sickness)

12.  Ovine progressive interstitial pneumonia (Maedi, Maedi-visna)

13.  Nairobi sheep disease

14.  Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia

15.  Diseases caused by Helminths
a) Coenurus cerebralis infection (Gid, Sturdy)
b) Echinococcosis ( Hydatid disease)
c) Fascioliasis
d) Lung worms
e) Cysticercus tenuicollis infestation
f) Cysticercus ovis infestation (sheep meales, sheep bladder worm)
g) Stilesia hepatica

16.  Diseases caused by Protozoa
a) Babesiosis (Piroplasmosis, Texas fever, Red water, Tick fever)
b) Toxoplasmosis
c) Theileriosis (Malignant ovine or caprine)
d) Sarcocystosis in sheep (Sarcosporidiosis)