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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 95, Issue 3, 16 September 1957, Page 298

An announcement from the N.Z. Department of Health is a disease shared by young children and farm animals. Both are infected from DOGS. • It g I B g |R| fl I attacks about 200 people every year; kills from HJ Is Ii fl i 111 11 10-20. •It wastes farmers' money to the tune of gag Wil w B I ill £i| wiillion of condemned meat a year. • It is H I I I ihh I Bills preventable. It could be stamped out if dogs were ill Basr I I B a las' freed of hydatid wormsand kept free. In the vicious cycle of hydatid infection there are two vital ■ points at which the disease can be checked: 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ dog eats infected raw offal , . . cut cycle here by boiling all offal you feed your dogs. Otherwise bury it. Dispose of stray carcasses around the farm. If your dog is allowed to eat the raw offal of farm animals, he develops, in seven weeks, hydatid worms which produce 500600 eggs every few days. Dogs’ excreta exposes the eggs . . . and so infection continues ... to farm, animals, and human beings. 2 . ♦ ♦ dog expels hydatid eggs . . . cut cycle here by dosing your dogs every three months with Arecoline. This will kill the worms. The purge must be burned, buried or disinfected because the eggs are only expelled, not killed by the drug. Animals and humans absorb hydatid eggs. PRECAUTIONS FOR FARM FAMILIES Wash thoroughly all fruit and vegetables Remember hydatid infection usually starts eaten raw. ® After handling animals, never in childhood. put hand to mouth without washing. ®Be Your co-operation on hydatid control is , sure children wash hands before eating. urgently needed. 5.7 a