Veterinary Preventive Medicine-II

PREVENTION AND CONTROL

• The recovered sheep are immune for 6 months. Grazing of the animals should be avoided in areas where there is lot of vectors.
• Vector control by applying insecticides and good water management
• Quarantine of the newly purchased animals

Vaccination

• Live, attenuated, avianated vaccines are used as monovalent strain or quadrivalent vaccine.
• Live vaccines should not be used in pregnant sheep.
• Sheep are vaccinated annually, and several weeks before service and before the start of rainy season.
• Lambs vaccinated at 6 months of age and booster vaccination at once in a year