Progress towards reduction of disease in sheep and goats

Date: 08 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Gavier-Widen (SE)

Theatre

• Scrapie: an overview; policy issues and potential eradication measures (Matthews, D.)
• Rare sheep breeds and breeding for scrapie resistance in the Netherlands (Kaal, L.M.T.E. and J.J. Windig)
• Simulation of different strategies for breeding towards scrapie resistance (Vries, F. de, J. Hamann, C. Drögemüller and O. Distl)
• PrP allele frequencies in non-infected Valle del Belice and infected cross-bred flocks (Kaam, J.B.C.H.M. van, R. Finocchiaro, M. Vitale, B. Portolano, F. Vitale and S. Caracappa)
• Blue tongue in sheep: brief overview of the disease, impact on production and current epidemiological situation in Europe, control and prevention (Casal, J.)
• The problem of anthelmintic resistance in nematode parasites of sheep and goats, and the prospects for non-chemotherapeutic methods of control (Waller, P.J.)
• Sustainable internal parasite control in Australian Merino sheep (Karlsson, L.J.E. and J.C. Greeff)
• Analyses of udder health in Valle del Belice dairy sheep using SCC (Portolano, B., V. Riggio, M.T. Sardina, R. Finocchiaro and J.B.C.H.M. van Kaam)