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Once it is a year old, the horse is referred to as a yearling. Weanlings are separated from their dam and often grouped with other weanlings to keep each other company. Weaning is a very stressful time for a foal. [4] [5]: 231
Drenching Merino hoggets, Walcha, NSW U.S. soldiers treating animals with de-worming medication in Eswatini during VETCAP. Deworming (sometimes known as worming, drenching or dehelmintization) is the giving of an anthelmintic drug (a wormer, dewormer, or drench) to a human or animals to rid them of helminths parasites, such as roundworm, flukes and tapeworm.
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Anthelmintic medication is also used in mass deworming campaigns of school-aged children in many developing countries. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Anthelmintics are also used for mass deworming of livestock. The drugs of choice for soil-transmitted helminths are mebendazole and albendazole ; [ 4 ] for schistosomiasis and tapeworms it is praziquantel .
The Carter Foundation begins a campaign to eradicate Guinea worm. The incidence of guinea worm infection declines sharply, from an estimated 3.5 million cases in 1986 to 22 reported cases in 2015. [9] Dracunculiasis 1997: The World Health Organization declares South Korea "essentially worm-free". [6] Soil-transmitted helminthiasis: South Korea 2001
The current world record was established on 29 June 2009, by 10-year-old Sophie Smith of Willaston, England, who raised 567 worms during Britain's World Worm Charming Championship. [ 11 ] There are 18 rules of this event as determined by the International Federation of Charming Worms and Allied Pastimes (IFCWAP).
Worming may refer to: Deworming, the giving of an anthelmintic drug to a human or animal to rid them of internal parasites, including helminths; Oculolinctus, eyeball licking; Worm, parcel and serve, the act of applying protection to standing rigging on a boat
Madagascar: began a deworming programme in 2012 aiming to target all of the children in the country, more than 5 million in total. [39] Malawi: around 2 million children targeted in a deworming programme in 2011. [40] Mozambique: began a deworming programme in 2007 when nearly 500,000 children were treated, by 2014 around 5 million were ...