LYMPHO IN FLOCKS

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31042, 23 April 1966, Page 8

LYMPHO IN FLOCKS

He had been finding cases of lympho here and there in flocks on Banks Peninsula, Dr. G. K. Cordell, of the Banks Peninsula Veterinary Club, told farmers at a field day at French Farm last week. He said afterwards that he had not been able to make any survey of the incidence of the disease, but it was not of a dramatic nature and was “scattered.”

Dr. Cordell recalled that about two years ago, when he was in the service of the Department of Agriculture, he had done some work on this disease in the Mackenzie Country. It did not seem to hurt the sheep, he said, but because it affected or infectted the various lymph glands, with the formation of abscesses. it did not make the meal very pretty. He said that they had found out that some 70,000 carcases a year were being rejected for export in the

South Island because of this disease. It had been found that it was transmitted through shearing cuts, at marking and through yards infected with the organisms.

In the Mackenzie, he said, to try to control the disease they had started to give sheep a 96-hour long acting treatment with penicillin as they went out the porthole after shearing. If it became too much of a problem on the peninsula, he said, they might have to become concerned with proper shed hygiene.