Tick Control
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2006-01-01 Why do our farm animals get sick and how can we keep them healthy?" This is a question veterinarians and other specialists who work with small farmers hear frequently. Most of these farmers work very hard, giving time, effort, and loving care to their animals in the hope that their farm will be...
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Abstract,Science News, 2013 In some lamb herds, a mortality rate of 30 percent has been recorded, with no predators involved in these losses. The situation is so serious that the sheep industry could be under threat. It is therefore crucial to identify the causes and implement preventative...
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Abstract, Parasites and Vectors, 2017 Tick infestation is the major problem for animal health that causes substantial economic losses, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries. To better understand the spatial distribution of tick species and risk factors associated with tick prevalence...
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Access Agriculture Training Video Ticks are small creatures like insects that attach to the body of animals to suck their blood. Ticks cause diseases like skin lesions. The animals will become skinny and no longer produce milk. Available languages Arabic Ateso Bangla Chitonga / Tonga English...
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1993-03-19 L. E. Andrews in Houston, Texas. “It sounds like Mr. Mears in Ecuador has a lot of problems with ticks! Marsha Hanzi, Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia, Brazil.“Regarding ticks on cattle, this is also a serious problem in the Brazilian altiplano, where it has been successfully kept within limits...
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1997-11-19 Two methods for controlling ticks on goats in the tropics.
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Ticks are serious vectors of human and animal disease agents; transmitting a greater variety of infectious organisms than any other blood-sucking arthropods. Ticks are known to transmit numerous protozoan, viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens. Ticks can be injurious to domestic livestock and...
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Mohamed SNA, Montasser AA, Baioumy Ali AA. Acaricidal effect of Citrullus colocynthis fruit extract on the camel tick Hyalomma dromedarii (Koch, 1844). Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2022 Sep;13(5):101995. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101995. Epub 2022 Jun 26. PMID: 35780609. The hard tick Hyalomma...
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1999-10-19 Ticks arereported to surpass all other arthropods in the number and variety of diseases they transmit to animals and man. There areabout 170 species of soft ticks (Argasidae) and 700 species of hard ticks (Ixodidae), the majority of which are found in Africa. Several of these are known to...
- Abstract, South African Journal of Botany, 2016 Highlights • Ticks and diseases caused by ticks have an enormous impact on animal production in Africa. • There is a growing resistance of ticks to commercially used acaricides. • Traditional healers use plants to combat tick infestations in many...
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Ticks and tick-borne diseases cause great economic loss to livestock in the world and have adverse effects on them in several ways and even leads to their death. Ticks parasitise a wide range of vertebrate hosts and transmit a variety of pathogenic agents than any other group of arthropods. The...