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Mitigating the risk of neospora

Vet, Rob Hall of LLM 51AVÊÓÆµVets, discusses the cost of abortions caused by neosporosis and best practice for controlling and preventing the disease

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Dogs are initially infected with the disease after ingesting neospora infected bovine tissues in the form of an aborted calf or placenta.
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Dogs are initially infected with the disease after ingesting neospora infected bovine tissues in the form of an aborted calf or placenta.

The second most commonly diagnosed infectious cause of abortion within UK dairy herds, is the parasitic disease, neosporosis. Typically causing late term pregnancy losses, at five to six months of...

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