News 24 | Learn about the most important sacrificial animal diseases discovered by doctors at regular slaughterhouses

As Eid al-Adha approaches, the safety of sacrifice remains one of the most important factors for food security, especially as some diseases that rams can become infected with can affect human health.

Doctors at regular slaughterhouses find many diseases that affect sacrificial animals, which helps prevent diseases that can primarily affect human health.

Tapeworm vesicles

that implies Eating food contaminated with eggs or larvae of tapeworm, a pathological infection known as ‘tapeworm’, which primarily targets tissues and organs in the body, where it can leave the intestine and form larval cysts, and it can turn into a mature tapeworm inside the intestine.

jaundice

This disease is known as “historical”, because of the yellow color it can leave in mutton, and is found in abundance in old carcasses, or because of the increased intake of substances containing carotene in animal feed, such as corn yolk.

fever

The sacrificial animal can be infected with different types of fever, including foot-and-mouth disease, where the first type is a virus that affects cows and has 7 different breeds, each of which targets a different species of animal, while a fever is formed due to the bacteria Coxiella burnetii, which often causes flu-like symptoms in humans. It is transmitted by animals, mainly sheep and goats.

waste

Sheep sometimes suffer from emaciation, which gets to the sheep through one of the internal parasites, and it affects the intestines, and its symptoms are general weakness of the sheep and the observation of certain secretions from parasite eggs. or worms in the barn, in addition to infection of sheep with diarrhea and anemia.

incomplete bleeding

A pathological condition in which the heart of the sacrifice, especially the left ventricle, is filled with blood, which prevents the blood from the carcass from completely escaping, which can provide a fertile environment for the formation of bacteria.

Liver worms

This type of worm is concentrated inside the bile ducts of animals, and immature worms can be found in liver tissue, and they are transmitted to animals by eating vegetables and plants. polluted Containing disease-causing bacteria or drinking water contaminated with worm cysts.

water bags

Hydatid sacs are formed by the presence of the larval stage of the genus Echinococcus in the internal intestines of the animal, and it is originally one of the tapeworms that infects the small intestine of carnivores.

abscess

Also known as “purulent grains”, this is a disease of cattle, where animals develop grains or skin lumps filled with pus, then begin to enter the mature stage to secrete pus to the skin. outside.