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(2008-02-15)Henri Pieter Albert de Boom was born on 16 October 1914 in Pretoria. He completed his schooling at the Oosteindschool in 1931 and qualified as veterinarian from the Onderstepoort faculty in 1936. The rest of his career ...
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(2008-02-22)In 1911 the farm Armoedsvlakte ("Poverty flats") - so named because no cattle could be farmed there as a result of the disease lamsiekte (botulism) - was offered to Arnold Theiler for a year to conduct experiments. The ...
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(2008-02-22)Dr Steyn obtained his BVSc degree in 1932 and was appointed GVO North Waterberg at the beginning of 1933. During 1934, after the Foot and Mouth campaign, he was transferred to Kimberley as GVO of the Northern Cape and ...
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(2008-02-27)Tsetse-flies are bloodsucking flies which transmit trypanosomes biologically from animal to animal.
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(2008-02-27)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 ...
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(2008-03-03)P.J.J. Fourie obtained his MRCVS in Dublin in 1919 as one of a group of students selected by the South African government for training in veterinary science abroad, before training facilities were established in South ...
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(2008-03-03)The double-storied main building in Dutch Colonial style housed a number of laboratories, each fitted out for a specific line of research such as bacteriology, zoology, chemistry, pathology etc. Hot and cold water, gas, ...
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(2008-03-03)J. Georg van der Wath qualified (BVSc) at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Pretoria at Onderstepoort in 1934 and took up an appointment at the Allerton Veterinary Laboratory near Pietermaritzburg. In 1936 he ...
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(2008-03-03)The ARC-OVI owes its origin to the rinderpest outbreak that swept through South Africa in 1896. Its forerunner was a laboratory established at Daspoort by Arnold Theiler in 1897.
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(2008-03-13)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.
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(2008-03-13)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 ...
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(2008-03-27)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 ...
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(2008-03-28)Several methods have been or are used to control trypanosomosis. Some of these are: 1. Control of the vectors (i.e. tsetse flies [Glossina spp]) -- 1.1. Remove their source of food (i.e. blood of animals) by reducing the ...
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(2008-04-16)Tsetse-flies are bloodsucking flies which transmit trypanosomes biologically from animal to animal.
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(2008-04-17)Glossina morsitans, a species originally thought to be the sole transmitter of Trypanosoma brucei brucei, the cause of nagana in central Africa; this species transmits this disease in some regions, but it is not the sole ...
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(2008-05-16)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.
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(2008-05-16)The "clinical block" (or animal hospital) housed primarily large and small animals that were patients of the surgery department. Notice the lungering ring (circular "path") in the centre of the lawn.
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(2008-05-16)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 ...
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(2008-08-07)Clinical signs of heartwater in cattle is a fever of 40°C or higher which persits for 3-4 days before it falls to below normal shortly before death. Animals cease eating and a diarrhoea may or may not be present. Some ...
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(2008-10-03)The Pathology building was erected in 1923. On the left is part of the "clinical block" (also called the "animal hospital")
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