Small Ruminant Haemonchosis: Prevalence and Associated Determinants in Randomly Selected Restaurants and Hotels of Gondar Town, Ethiopia

Abstract

A cross sectional study was performed with an attempt to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of haemonchosis in randomly selected slaughtered sheep and goats in restaurants and hotels in Gondar town, Amhara region, northwest Ethiopia from November 2011 to April 2012. A total of 384 animals (335 sheep and 49 goats) were examined. Overall prevalence was 80.21%. The specific prevalence of Haemonchus. contortus infection was 81.2% and 73.5% in sheep and goats respectively. The difference in infection rates between the two species was not statistically significant ( = 1.607, p>0.05). The prevalence of 2 haemonchosis in males and females was 80.9% and 77%, respectively but, the difference is not statistically significant ( = 0.583, p>0.05). Relationship between body condition and haemonchosis in sheep and goats 2 showed no statistical difference ( = 1.727, p>0.05) between medium and good body conditioned animals. 2 In the present study, a high infection rate with H. contortus was observed in both sheep and goats during the study period affecting health of those animals and appropriate control measure should be instituted.