Tick-borne theileriosis likely cause of mystery Mirboo cattle deaths

Updated August 19 2019 - 10:31am, first published 8:00am
TICK TRAUMA: A mystery illness that has claimed cattle in herds near Mirboo, South Gippsland, is likely to be the tick-borne disease, theileriosis.
TICK TRAUMA: A mystery illness that has claimed cattle in herds near Mirboo, South Gippsland, is likely to be the tick-borne disease, theileriosis.

A tick-borne disease in Gippsland continues to cause bovine anemia in an undisclosed number of herds after an autumn outbreak of illness.

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