Other Animal Disease -- New Zealand
Sheep measles is a disease that won't disappear any time soon. The roaming of untreated dogs defaecating on pasture grazed by sheep and feeding off raw sheep meat has an important part to play in the disease. Sheep measles is the common name given to lesions in sheep and goats caused by an "intermediate stage" of a tapeworm parasite. They are seen as hard white cysts either on the surface or deep in muscle tissue. The blemishes in sheep meat can result in downgrading or, in extreme cases,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6148747&promed&0
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