Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Psoroptic mange, bighorn sheep – Canada: (BC)
PRO/AH/EDR> Psoroptic mange, bighorn sheep – Canada: (BC)
Other Animal Disease -- CanadaBighorn 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 Read more [...]
