Both diseases pose a significant challenge at present, with weather providing an ideal environment for high risk in 2024.

“Coccidiosis is transmitted when food or water becomes contaminated with faeces containing coccidial oocysts and the risk of spreading is higher in housed calves,” he explained. He said that while ...

Nematodirosis can be wrongly assumed to be the cause of severe diarrhoea in lambs when in fact the cause is a Coccidial infection. Rotation of pasture and frequent movement of feeding troughs to ...

Others include, the resistance to sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim, two highly important antimicrobials used to treat bacterial and coccidial infections in humans and animals, has risen alarmingly.