Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
East Coast Fever continues killing cattle in Jonglei
By John Actually
July 18, 2011 (BOR) - East Coast Fever, which broke out in April 2008, continues to kill cattle in large numbers in Jonglei, forcing the cattle keepers to flee to Central Equatoria and Lakes states from June-to-July this year, Sudan Tribune has learned.
In a visit to the cattle Camp in Bor, a cattle keeper, Gai Deng told Sudan Tribune that their camp is affected by East Coast Fever, a tick- borne protozoan infection caused by Theileria parva that killed over 10,000 cattle since it started three years ago.
Deng said the disease had killed 30 cattle in the last two months after they crossed the to the eastern bank Nile when rainy seasons started.
?We are afraid that this disease will leave no cow alive by the end of this year if it continues to kill cattle like this?, he added.
Another cattle keeper, Deutong Manyok said the drugs brought by the state livestock health units are too expensive for them to afford and accused the drugs sellers of selling un-effective drugs at exaggerated prices.
?They are selling one vial of parvaquone or Clexon at 90-100 Sudanese Pounds [US$34-37] which cannot even treat the cow when you buy it,? said Manyok.
Asked why some cattle herders crossed the Nile to Lakes and Central Equartoria states, Deng, one of chiefs of herders in Kolnyang district said most of herders left in June for Lakes state as it was the only way of avoiding the disease.
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http://www.sudantribune.com/East-Coast-Fever-continues-killing,39564
By John Actually
July 18, 2011 (BOR) - East Coast Fever, which broke out in April 2008, continues to kill cattle in large numbers in Jonglei, forcing the cattle keepers to flee to Central Equatoria and Lakes states from June-to-July this year, Sudan Tribune has learned.
In a visit to the cattle Camp in Bor, a cattle keeper, Gai Deng told Sudan Tribune that their camp is affected by East Coast Fever, a tick- borne protozoan infection caused by Theileria parva that killed over 10,000 cattle since it started three years ago.
Deng said the disease had killed 30 cattle in the last two months after they crossed the to the eastern bank Nile when rainy seasons started.
?We are afraid that this disease will leave no cow alive by the end of this year if it continues to kill cattle like this?, he added.
Another cattle keeper, Deutong Manyok said the drugs brought by the state livestock health units are too expensive for them to afford and accused the drugs sellers of selling un-effective drugs at exaggerated prices.
?They are selling one vial of parvaquone or Clexon at 90-100 Sudanese Pounds [US$34-37] which cannot even treat the cow when you buy it,? said Manyok.
Asked why some cattle herders crossed the Nile to Lakes and Central Equartoria states, Deng, one of chiefs of herders in Kolnyang district said most of herders left in June for Lakes state as it was the only way of avoiding the disease.
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http://www.sudantribune.com/East-Coast-Fever-continues-killing,39564