U.K. warning on sheep disease
NZPA staff correspondent London Pregnant women have been warned to keep away from sheep during the British lambing season because of a sheep disease which is causing an increasing number of miscarriages. The “Sunday Telegraph” newspaper reported that the disease, caused by an organism, Chlamydia psittaci, was the most common cause of abortion in sheep and had grown fourfold over the last seven years. “Three farmers’ wives are known to have lost their babies this year and doctors suspect that other
miscarriages have been caused by the disease,” the newspaper said. The Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture has warned farmers not to allow women in any stage of pregnancy to help with ewes giving birth to lambs, new-born lambs, or with milking sheep during the lambing season. A Ministry spokesman said that putting sheep inside buildings just before lambing was increasing the risk of transmission of the bacteria. Last year about 1200 cases of the disease were reported among sheep compared with fewer than 300 in 1978.
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