Skin diseases are among the most common in Africa. This cow was diagnosed based on the appearance of the skin as having streptotrichosis, or an infection with an organism named
Dermatophilus congolensis and often associated with tick infections such as the tick Amblyoma. This animal has the typical lesions of this skin infection and is infected with several ticks, including one which is engorged with blood.
Dr. Kassa Bayou identified these ticks in his hand as belonging to the Amblyoma species, the type tick which may carry Cowdria ruminantium, an organism that can cause a serious illness in cattle called “heartwater.” It is also associated with skin infections with the organism Dermatophilus congolensis.
To be able to conduct a large practical exercise for the Community Animal Health Workers (CAHW’s, commonly called “cows”) being trained in this VETCAP, the Ministry of Agriculture trainers had to negotiate with the local village chief, an elected official, to all us to work in his area and to promote the people brining their animals to a central facility to allow us to conduct a mass vaccination campaign. The village chief met with us with one of his children, and was happy to facilitate this training since it benefitted his people through providing vaccinations for blackleg and deworming injections with ivermectin at no cost to them.
We are doing this training in the Benna-Tse May “Wareda,” a political division roughly equivalent to a county in the U.S. The map sketches out where CAHW’s are now located in local “Kabele’s,” roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.
Our soldiers interacted very well with the Ethiopians. SGT Tom York liked to show the children hand-held video games and had a great time with them; he also had a hard time getting his hand-held game boy back. And yes, that’s REALLY his name. He is a distant relative of THE
Sergeant Alvin York of WWI fame, played by Gary Cooper
in the movie by the same name and which this Sergeant York amazingly had never seen!
Skin diseases are among the most common in Africa. This cow was diagnosed based on the appearance of the skin as having streptotrichosis, or an infection with an organism named Dermatophilus congolensis and often associated with tick infections such as the tick Amblyoma. This animal has the typical lesions of this skin infection and is infected with several ticks, including one which is engorged with blood.
Dr. Kassa Bayou identified these ticks in his hand as belonging to the Amblyoma species, the type tick which may carry Cowdria ruminantium, an organism that can cause a serious illness in cattle called “heartwater.” It is also associated with skin infections with the organism Dermatophilus congolensis.
To be able to conduct a large practical exercise for the Community Animal Health Workers (CAHW’s, commonly called “cows”) being trained in this VETCAP, the Ministry of Agriculture trainers had to negotiate with the local village chief, an elected official, to all us to work in his area and to promote the people brining their animals to a central facility to allow us to conduct a mass vaccination campaign. The village chief met with us with one of his children, and was happy to facilitate this training since it benefitted his people through providing vaccinations for blackleg and deworming injections with ivermectin at no cost to them.
We are doing this training in the Benna-Tse May “Wareda,” a political division roughly equivalent to a county in the U.S. The map sketches out where CAHW’s are now located in local “Kabele’s,” roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.
Our soldiers interacted very well with the Ethiopians. SGT Tom York liked to show the children hand-held video games and had a great time with them; he also had a hard time getting his hand-held game boy back. And yes, that’s REALLY his name. He is a distant relative of THE Sergeant Alvin York of WWI fame, played by Gary Cooper in the movie by the same name and which this Sergeant York amazingly had never seen!
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment