| | Diseases in sheep in Ixodes ricinus infested pastures |
 | | The tick sucks blood from host animals, but the direct damage done by the blood sucking is relatively small in this country, even though some lambs can loose quite a lot of blood and become anaemic, if they are exposed to strong tick infestation. |
 | | In particular areas that have been investigated, 1/3 of the lambs that were put on tick infested pastures were lost, and this loss is mainly caused by tick-borne fever and complications related to this disease. |
 | | The main problem of the disease is, as mentioned earlier, that it leads to a debilitated immune defence system and thereby a risk of secondary infections such as blood poisonings (septicemia, pyemia) and inflammations in the joints (joint-ill). |
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