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A single dose of [[Antibiotics|antibiotics]] ideally penicillin or oxytetracycline gives rapid resolution.
A single dose of [[Antibiotics|antibiotics]] ideally penicillin or oxytetracycline gives rapid resolution.
Foot-bathing is also useful zinc sulphate and formalin can be used.
Foot-bathing is also useful zinc sulphate and formalin can be used. There should be a dry area wher the shhep can stand post dip to give the chemical time totake affect.
This is more useful as a form of control preventing footrot.
This is more useful as a form of control preventing footrot.
vaccination is a further form of control. This only gives 12 weeks of protection and hence must be
Culling of repeatedly affected animals and hence carriers of disease.
==Prognosis==
==Prognosis==