NADIS issues warning

The National Animal Disease Information Service (NADIS) has announced that the high risk of liver fluke in Scotland, Wales and western England will continue throughout autumn 2012.

NADIS recommends that sheep farms with a known liver problem who have not already treated their animals should do so, while farms with no previous evidence of fluke disease are encouraged to monitor for the presence of infection via post mortem examination of all sudden deaths.

With regard to cattle, NADIS urges that out-wintered cattle exposed to high levels of fluke should be treated in late autumn, and cattle brought in for the winter should be dosed at housing.

NADIS made the recommendations in its November 2012 Parasite Forecast, where it labelled fluke diocese as a "significant risk" across most of the UK.

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