Other Animal Disease -- Canada
Bighorn sheep in the South Okanagan [British Columbia] are facing a new threat on the heels of a pneumonia outbreak in 1999 that decimated the bighorn sheep herd around Vaseux Lake.
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Communications Officer Dave Townsend says ministry technicians discovered _Psoroptes ovis_, or sheep mange, in Similkameen Valley bighorn sheep populations in 2011.
It's the 1st time the disease has been seen in Canada since being eradicated from
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2lxShbv
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