HYDATIDS
Sir, —A correspondent asks: “Has it been proved that sheep contract hydatids from dogs?” It has been so proved. I am a great believer in stamping out the disease by educating dog-owners to cook the livers of sheep and cattle. In that way dogs are made safe. It has been made an offence to feed dogs on raw offal. If every farmer, when he killed his sheep, would see that all offal was cooked before being given to his dogs, hydatids would soon disappear from New Zealand. It was proved at the Medical School in Dunedin that it was the country dog that was the danger, town dogs being found to be free of the hydatid tape-worm.—Yours, etc., DOG LOVER. July 23, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25244, 24 July 1947, Page 5
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