As if we don’t have enough problems with our regular everyday tick, now the Centers for Disease Control says there’s a new tick in town — the Asian longhorned tick that has killed three cows ...
Pesapane and her colleagues suggest the Ohio cattle died from blood loss. However, Lahmers is more skeptical that blood loss, alone, was the culprit. "It would take an awful lot of ticks in order ...
USDA-ARS scientists are developing novel vaccines to help protect livestock against cattle ticks that hitchhike on wildlife, such as the white-tail deer, that cross the Rio Grande River into Texas.
They were Haemaphysalis longicornis, longhorned or bush ticks from East Asia. In Asia and Australia, they've appeared in such numbers that they've killed cattle by draining them of their blood ...
Locally, the dips were managed in such a way that the leaders, or management committees, ensured the cows had the weekly bath and there was available subsidised acaride for killing ticks.
In this part of the country, rearing cattle in huge numbers is a norm, a sense of pride among the Banyankole tribemates. This norm is however threatened by a new type of drug resistant ticks which ...
Scientists say they’ve developed a first-ever vaccine that’s designed to protect cattle from a potentially-deadly tick-borne disease that’s common in Iowa. Bovine anaplasmosis infects the ...