Epi- and endocardial haemorrhages are commonly present in the disease.

"Bait" cattle can be used to deterimine the incidence of tsetse flies in an area. Flies landing on cattle to feed are captured.

In Africa, protozoon parasites of the genus Trypanosoma are responsible for causing what is probably still the most important disease of domestic livestock in Africa south of the Sahara Desert i.e. African animal trypanosomosis ...

Ferrets were bred particularly when experimental work was being done in the 1950's for the development of a canine distemper vaccine as they are also susceptable to the virus (a member of the family Paramyxoviridae)

The Pathology building was erected in 1923. On the left is part of the "clinical block" (also called the "animal hospital")

Considerable expansion of the infrastructure at Onderstepoort, mainly to accommodate new students, took place in the early 1920s. The Biochemistry wing of the main building, the Pathology building, the hospital block and ...

On the photo in the right foreground are the animal stables, in centre distance, is the "clinical block" (animal hospital) and on the right, part of the Pathology building.

Tsetse-flies are bloodsucking flies which transmit trypanosomes biologically from animal to animal.

There are no clinical signs specific for trypanosomosis. The disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic. Acute disease may be fatal after an illness lasting 2-6 weeks, or it may developed into the chronic phrase which may ...

Chronic trypanosomosis caused by Trypanosoma virax. The chronic form - the most common - is characterized by emaciation, weakness, lethargy, anaemia, enlarged lymph nodes and subcutaneous (dependent) oedema.