Tick-borne disease -- New Zealand
New Zealand researchers have proven sheep can carry and potentially spread the parasite behind the bovine anaemia epidemic. Sheep were asymptomatic carriers of the tick-borne parasite _Theileria orientalis_, which meant they were unaffected by the disease but could spread it to the ticks feeding on them.
_T. orientalis_ is a tickborne intracellular parasite of red blood cells causing severe and mild infections in various ruminants worldwide. To date [22 Feb 2021], there have been 11 types
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8225848&promed&0
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