Further evidence for the long distance dispersal of taeniid eggs. International Journal for Parasitology 25, 265-267. Observations on the epidemiology of Taenia hydatigena in Soay sheep on St. Kilda. Veterinary Record 131, 218-219. Horse liver severely infiltrated with hydatid cysts Transmission of disease between domestic livestock and Saiga antelope in Kazakhstan.
Saiga antelope are a migratory species that inhabit the steppes of central Asia.
Ninety percent of the world s population is in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Under Soviet administration the population recovered from near extinction in the early part of this century to a health population of about 1 million. Since independence in 1991, the economy of Kazakhstan has undergone serious decline and there is a renewed threat to the Saiga antelope from poaching and from transmission of disease as a result of changes in farming practices. The lead scientists in UCD are Dr Paul Torgerson and graduate student Eric Morgan . The team from UCD are investigating the prevalence and transmission of parasitic diseases in Saiga in collaboration with Professor Blok Shaikenov of The Institute of Zoology, Almaty.