The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, revealing that the disease’s early spread depended on animals long before ...
Oestrus ovis, a cosmopolitan dipteran parasite commonly known as the sheep nose botfly, is responsible for oestrosis in small ruminants and ophthalmomyiasis in humans. In sheep and goats, the larvae ...