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On December 1, 1929, specimens of sheep livers were received from the Lake St. John region of Quebec. The animals were reported as having had "liver trouble" and of five sheep three had died. Flukes were located in large numbers in the sheep livers and the parasite identified as Dicrocoelium dendriticum (Rudolphi 1819). The five infested sheep had been brought in from Nova Scotia. The two surviving sheep were slaughtered after diagnosis of the trouble had been made. The same species of fluke, as above, was later found and identified from a section of sheep liver received from Nova Scotia on December 16, 1929. On March 10, 1930, examination of a carcass of a mink received from Prince Edward Island disclosed the presence of the same parasite as noted above. |
