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Table 11 Counts of primary cause of deaths attributed by expert committee

From: Design and descriptive epidemiology of the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL) project, a longitudinal calf cohort study in western Kenya

Cause of death

No. calves

East coast fever

32

Unknown

20

Haemonchosis

9

Heartwater

6

Trauma

3

Actiomyces pyogenes

1

Babesiosis

1

Bacterialpneumonia

1

Black Quarter

1

Cassava

1

Foreign body

1

Mis-mothering

1

Rabies

1

Salmonellosis

1

Trypanosomiasis

1

Turning sickness

1

Viral pneumonia

1

No post mortem carried out

6

Total

88

  1. NB 2 additional calves were considered to have died with ECF as a secondary contributing cause; one with heartwater and another with black quarter.