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Weird Parasites and Neurological Disease: The Saga of Mickey the Alpaca

By Scott Weese on February 1, 2024
Posted in Other animals

I debated writing about this now since it’s an ongoing situation with a very unclear outcome, but that’s medicine. We also don’t have a lot of camelid content on the blog, and there’s an infectious disease component to this case, so figured it was worthwhile.

Mickey (photo right) is an older male alpaca, part of…

MRSA in an alpaca

By Scott Weese on December 26, 2012
Posted in Other animals

Following up on my recent post about MRSP in rats, here’s a story about MRSA in an alpaca (Stull et al, Can Vet J 2012). As far as we know, it’s the first report of MRSA in an alpaca (or any camelid).

The report relates to our large animal hospital, where we…

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