A disease of sheep caused by deficiency in certain minerals, formerly prevalent in coastal southern Australia.
the application of copper sulphate eliminated coast disease
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Profound anaemia with a gross lack of red cells was a common feature of coast disease.
He was an old man of 98, but with undimmed memories of the remarkable bloom of life brought to the country once blighted by coast disease.
The veterinary pathologist shows that coast disease in Western Australia is identical with the disease of the same name in South Australia.
In 1928, a visiting South African veterinarian suggested that coast disease might be caused by a deficiency of phosphorus.
A cure for coast disease, a wasting disease of sheep, was discovered in the late 1930s by Marston and his team at the Division of Animal Nutrition.
Cobalt deficiency was identified as the cause of coast disease in sheep.
In the early days of investigation into coast disease, his property was designated an experimental farm and he was made a field officer.
Do you think that destroying the mallee does away with coast disease?
At the same time, a chemist with a background in geology was mapping out the areas affected by coast disease on Kangaroo Island.
If the sheep were not moved inland every year, they became anaemic and wasted away until, often, they died—the settlers called this mysterious ailment coast disease.