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South Sudan: Deadly Outbreak of 'Black Quarter Disease' in Upper Nile State
By Dr. Peter Kayier Tut, 25 March 2012
I have been contracted by CARE SS, an international organization working in South Sudan-Upper Nile State Program to conduct Refresher Training for Community Based Animal Health workers and to facilitate as well the livestock Deworming and Treatment campaign covering all the remote payams of Maiwut County.
It was during this tour and exercise that we had come to encounter dozens reports from communities on disease outbreak which I had identified or suspected to be Black Quarter base on clinical signs and symptoms observed.
It was on 16/3/2012 when I personally came across the outbreak in one of the cattle camp, a heifer of two years was found dead above in Lolkuoth Jetome Payam in Maiwut County. I approached the community to have the full picture of the disease incidence; the community informed us that, this is not the first kind of death reiterating that several animals died of the same disease showing the same clinical symptoms. They said many animals have died in several locations, but no action has been taken by various stakeholders as far as the outbreak is concern.
The informants reported that those animals that died of the disease showed loss of appetite prior to onset of disease with good body condition and the disease targets animals between ages of one to two years. Death commence within 24-48 hr and an estimated 20 herd have died of the disease according to the various reports receive in different payams of Maiwut county...
South Sudan: Deadly Outbreak of 'Black Quarter Disease' in Upper Nile State
By Dr. Peter Kayier Tut, 25 March 2012
I have been contracted by CARE SS, an international organization working in South Sudan-Upper Nile State Program to conduct Refresher Training for Community Based Animal Health workers and to facilitate as well the livestock Deworming and Treatment campaign covering all the remote payams of Maiwut County.
It was during this tour and exercise that we had come to encounter dozens reports from communities on disease outbreak which I had identified or suspected to be Black Quarter base on clinical signs and symptoms observed.
It was on 16/3/2012 when I personally came across the outbreak in one of the cattle camp, a heifer of two years was found dead above in Lolkuoth Jetome Payam in Maiwut County. I approached the community to have the full picture of the disease incidence; the community informed us that, this is not the first kind of death reiterating that several animals died of the same disease showing the same clinical symptoms. They said many animals have died in several locations, but no action has been taken by various stakeholders as far as the outbreak is concern.
The informants reported that those animals that died of the disease showed loss of appetite prior to onset of disease with good body condition and the disease targets animals between ages of one to two years. Death commence within 24-48 hr and an estimated 20 herd have died of the disease according to the various reports receive in different payams of Maiwut county...