Farmers have been urged to test for liver fluke in an autumn and winter that could be ‘very different’ to recent years. The relatively low and later incidence of liver fluke in recent years shouldn’t ...

According to Parasitologists working at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), farmers need to be aware of the risk ...

The message underlines that relatively low and delayed occurrences of liver fluke in the past should not lead sheep farmers to become complacent this season. This advice comes from animal health ...

Haemonchosis (the condition caused by the Haemonchus contortus worm) can be fatal in sheep following sufficient intake of worm larvae over ... Vets warn that liver fluke symptoms are very like ...

THE winter of 1879–80 was marked by a widely-spread outbreak of the liver ... liver-fluke (Fasciola hepatica) in the liver of the affected animals, and that the parasite invaded sheep or ...

The threat over the next month to six weeks will be from acute/sub-acute liver fluke and sheep ingesting large numbers of early immature larvae. It is important that products are used that at least ...

Liver fluke is caused by a flat leaf-like worm called Fasciola Hepatica. The fluke cycle involves two separate hosts, the mud snail and the sheep. Liver fluke when left untreated can result in the ...