. The dog as a carrier of parasites and diseases. Dogs as carriers of disease; Dogs. 14 BULLETIN 260, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUBE. SO that neglect on the part of sheep owners is a leading reason for its prevalence. The prophylactic measures against " sheep measles" are essen- tially the same as those against gid and hydatid. Diseased portions of slaughtered sheep and dead sheep which have not been slaughtered should be cooked before being fed to dogs or else disposed of so that dogs can not eat them. Ownerless dogs should be destroyed and other dogs properly fed and kept free fro
. The dog as a carrier of parasites and diseases. Dogs as carriers of disease; Dogs. 14 BULLETIN 260, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUBE. SO that neglect on the part of sheep owners is a leading reason for its prevalence. The prophylactic measures against " sheep measles" are essen- tially the same as those against gid and hydatid. Diseased portions of slaughtered sheep and dead sheep which have not been slaughtered should be cooked before being fed to dogs or else disposed of so that dogs can not eat them. Ownerless dogs should be destroyed and other dogs properly fed and kept free from tapeworm. Muscular cysticercosis {^^ measles ^^) in reindeer.—^This parasite deserves special mention in view of the possibility that the Alaskan reindeer may become important in connection with the meat supply of this country. A large percentage of these animals, which are rapidly increasing in numbers, are infested with a measle parasite apparently the same as the form known to be the intermediate stage of a dog tapeworm (Taenia krabiei). This is not only serious so far as con- cerns the reindeer industry, but the possibility that the parasite may become established in other food animals is not altogether excluded, though prob- ably remote. Taenia Tcrahiei occurs in Europe and Asia and was likely introduced with the reindeer or dogs imported into Alaska, though the Alaskan form may be a native parasite already present in fig. s.—cyaticereua American reindeer and carnivores before the im- tMn"necked*'biId* portation of the Old World animals. aer worm from Cysticercosis of livers and mesenteries.—Cysti- ca^tti'e^'' *^h'eep' cercosis, or the presence of cysticerci, or bladder swine, etc. Natn- worms, in the livers, mesenteries, and omentum^ or st/ies^^^ (after " fat caul," is very common in cattle, sheep, and hogs throitghout the United States. These bladder worms, Gysticercus tenuicollis (fig. 8), are usually 1 or 2 inches in diameter, and the cyst contai
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