Other Animal Disease — Canada
Bighorn sheep in the South Okanagan [British Columbia] are facing a new threat on the heels of a pneumonia outbreak in 1999 that decimated the bighorn sheep herd around Vaseux Lake.
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Communications Officer Dave Townsend says ministry technicians discovered _Psoroptes ovis_, or sheep mange, in Similkameen Valley bighorn sheep populations in 2011.
It’s the 1st time the disease has been seen in Canada since being eradicated from
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