I have been talking about water-borne diseases for a while now and the topic I am about to write on today is also related to water-borne illnesses. Giardia is the short form for Giardia duodenalis, the illness caused by Giardia is giardiasis. Giardia resides in the gut of humans and animals who have been infected, it happens to be the most common waterborne parasitic infection that affects humans and animals.

Our friendly and ever-bubbly pets unfortunately cannot be that active daily, there are moments when they are down with sicknesses and we just need to be there for them at those moments. It is also our duty as pet owners to look out for our pets since we are the ones who can tell when certain things are harmful to them or not.

As a person, I heard about the plague when we were taught about bible stories, and since that time, I thought it was an ancient disease that was no longer in existence. I was surprised when I found it in my latest research, the name and where I had heard it immediately came to mind and I knew I had to know if it is the same type of plague we were taught in the story or if it signifies something else now.

My friend was telling me about a case of a boy she saw who had been bitten by a dog and how the boy was behaving aggressively, I immediately figured out it could be a case of furious rabies.That was how I learned some time ago that there are different clinical representations of rabies. Some people would even argue that, rabies shouldn't cause aggression but what they do not understand is that there are different forms and probably the type they have seen in action is not the same type the person they are arguing with has seen before. Rabies has two clinical representations, furious and paralytic rabies.

I will be speaking on another livestock problem this morning, a contagious one at that. Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia is an infectious and contagious disease that mainly affects cattle. It is caused by, Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides(Mmm).

I have heard about chicken pox before, but not about goat or sheep pox. While it may be strange to me, it may not be strange to several others who know about it.sourceFor the sake of people like me who may not know of it, let's check it out and see what it is about. Sheep and goat pox is a viral, and highly contagious disease. We can abbreviate sheep and goat pox to SGP for easy description in the context of this article.