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Prevalence of disease conditions in slaughtered cattle9Figure 1: Fasciola giganticadetected from the liver of cattle.Figure 2: Grossly tubercled lung ofcattle.Table 1: Prevalence of Fasciola gigantica and Cysticercus bovisMonth ParasiteDetectedNumberExaminedNumberInfectedPercentageInfectionNov. Fasciola gigantica 107 8 7.48Cysticercus bovis 107 1 0.93Dec. Fasciola gigantica 43 7 16.28Cysticercus bovis 43 0 0%TOTAL 300 16 15.33Table 2: Organ distribution of disease conditionsDiseaseConditionOrganinfectedNumberExaminedNumberInfectedPercentageInfectionJaundice Skin and internal organ 150 2 1.33Tuberculosis Lungs 150 4 2.67Splenomegaly Spleen 150 2 1.33Telangiactasis Liver 150 2 1.33Pneumonia Lungs 150 2 1.33pneumonia were found (one in a male and onein a female) between November and December.Four male cows were found infected with bovinetuberculosis (figure 2) in November alone.There were no such disease conditions in anycattle examined in December. Three cases oftelangiactasis were found (two in males and onein female) in the livers of the cattle inNovember. There were no such diseaseconditions in December. The cases ofsplenomegaly recorded were two (i.e. 1.33%).DISCUSSIONThe purpose of disease surveillance is to use allappropriate epidemiologic and other methods asguide to the control of such disease” (Downs,1990). This objective was later enlarged toinclude the evaluation of disease states andprovision of data for disease control and healthservices planning. The first part of the objectiveis about describing the ongoing pattern ofdisease occurrence and disease potential.Against this background, the results of thissurvey should be very relevant in both diseasecontrol in cattle and public health controls in thehuman population. Two parasites were detectedin the course of this survey namely Fasciolagigantica and Cysticercus bovis. These showedprevalence rates of 10.00% and 0.67%respectively. The disease conditions liketuberculosis, pneumonia, splenomegaly,jaundice and telangiactasis were also observed.But there does not seem to be any association