Table 5. Summary of the causes of mortality and culling of SR in seven Nigerian states.
| Ranking
by farmers |
Ranking
by key informants |
Disease identified
from farmer survey |
Number
of cases |
Percentage
of total SR surveyed |
Percentage
of all SR mortalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trypanosomosis | 1174 | 6.85 | 22.2 | |
| 2 | 1 | PPR | 854 | 4.99 | 16.1 |
| 3 | 3 | Orf | 524 | 3.06 | 9.9 |
| 4 | Foot rot | 509 | 2.97 | 9.6 | |
| 5 | FMD | 504 | 2.94 | 9.5 | |
| 6 | Unspecified health
problems |
347 | 2.03 | 6.5 | |
| 7 | 4 | CCPP | 313 | 1.83 | 5.9 |
| 8 | Sudden death | 299 | 1.75 | 5.6 | |
| 9 | Pasteurellosis | 220 | 1.28 | 4.2 | |
| 10 | Injuries | 200 | 1.17 | 3.8 | |
| 11 | 5 | Inadequate nutrition | 179 | 1.05 | 3.4 |
| 12 | Endoparasites | 174 | 1.02 | 3.3 | |
| 2 | Ectoparasites
including fly strike |
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| 6 | Sheep and goat pox | ||||
| Total | 5297 | 30.93 | 100.0 | ||
| Total in
survey |
17,129 |
SR, small ruminants; PPR, peste des petits ruminants; FMD, foot and mouth disease; CCPP, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.