Sheep Vaccine for Worms

This is a interesting article and I hope this does work out.....

 

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A world-first vaccine more than 25 years in the making is being developed in Albany and could be available in commercial quantities by the end of next year.

 

The vaccine, created in collaboration between researchers at the Department of Agriculture and Food's Albany district office and the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, will guard against the world's most severe sheep and goat parasite–Barbers pole worm (Haemonchus contortus).

 

Barbers pole worm, named after its red and white striped appearance, occurs in the fourth stomach of sheep and goats from Kalbarri to Esperance in WA, as well as other pastoral areas of Australia and overseas.

 

Grazing animals can contract Barbers pole worms by ingesting microscopic larvae that has hatched from eggs laid in the intestinal tract of the host animal by adult worms, which are passed through feces and migrate onto pasture.

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