sheep and goat

Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers and browsers, both individually and in herds, in return for their production of milk, wool, mohair, and meat.[1] As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.

    Prions: scrapie

Bluetongue virus particle

    Viruses: foot-and-mouth disease, bluetongue disease, maedi-visna, orf, tick-borne encephalomyelitis, peste-des-petits-ruminants virus, sheeppox and goatpox

    Bacteria: blackleg, foot rot, caprine pleuropneumonia, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, chlamydiosis, Johne's disease, listeriosis, fleece rot

A sheep showing clinical symptoms of facial eczema

    Funguses: Facial eczema

    Parasites:
        protozoa: Trypanosoma spp., Babesia spp., Theileria hirci, Anaplasma ovis, Eimeria spp., Toxoplasma gondii, Giardia intestinalis, Sarcocystis spp., Cryptosporidium parvum, Ehrlichia ovina

E. granulosus life cycle

        helminths:
            flatworms: Fasciola hepatica, Fasciola gigantica, Fascioloides magna,
Source:Wikipedia

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