Scientists from the Murdoch University Harry Butlers Institute’s Centre for Biosecurity and One Health have been awarded $150,000 to better understand the species of ticks on and near cattle farms in Western Australia.
They’ll investigate the risk of tick-associated cattle diseases, along with preventing the entry of other threatening species into the state.
A detrimental threat to cattle, bovine anaemia due to Theileria orientalis group (BATOG) disease, is caused by a blood parasite (Theileria orientalis) which is transmitted by bush ticks (Haemaphysalis longicornis) after they…
