Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Tick fever kills 22 cattle in north west NSW
By Lisa Herbert
Friday, 04/05/2012
Twenty-two cattle have been killed by tick fever in the NSW north west.
Tick fever is caused by a parasite in red blood cells. The only thing that can spread tick fever is cattle ticks.
As a result the NSW Department of Primary Industry considers cattle ticks to be 'the most serious external parasite of cattle in Australia'.
Cattle ticks were found on the affected stock on a property at Quirindi.
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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201205/s3495941.htm?site=newengland
By Lisa Herbert
Friday, 04/05/2012
Twenty-two cattle have been killed by tick fever in the NSW north west.
Tick fever is caused by a parasite in red blood cells. The only thing that can spread tick fever is cattle ticks.
As a result the NSW Department of Primary Industry considers cattle ticks to be 'the most serious external parasite of cattle in Australia'.
Cattle ticks were found on the affected stock on a property at Quirindi.
...
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201205/s3495941.htm?site=newengland