Hi Dale,

Message 29 below refers.

I am the Johne's Coordinator in South Africa for the Sheep Disease (OJD).

The article below is unfortunate, in the sense that they are comparing
OJD to AIDS.

I tried to rectify this disinformation and later articles have been
changed.

Regards,

Trevor

--- In paratuberculosis@yahoogroups.com, Dale <dale@...> wrote:
>
>
<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=vn20080225041030310\
C554637>
> Sheep Aids hits hundreds of farmers
>
> February 25 2008 at 07:22AM
>
>
> By Karen Breytenbach
>
> The Department of Agriculture has appealed to Western Cape sheep
farmers
> to remain calm in the face of the spread to hundreds of farms of Ovine
> Johne's Disease, better known as "sheep Aids" because of the
emaciation it
> causes.
>
> The disease was first detected on 47 farms in Caledon, Ceres and
Mossel
> Bay a decade ago, but has slowly spread to hundreds of farms,
especially
> in the Caledon area and Southern Cape. Some cases were also reported
in
> Cradock in Eastern Cape.
>
> But the Western Cape Agriculture Department has moved to reassure
farmers
> that their interests would be protected. "The situation is under
control,
> we have vets working on it full-time," said spokesperson Alie van
> Jaarsveld.
> --
> Dale
> <http://DaleRoose.com/>
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