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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…

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