0 an infectious disease in animals that have hair, such as dogs and cats, that makes hair fall out and causes areas of rough skin
In particular, canines are susceptible to infection and mange is a highly contagious disease among dogs.
This parasite is a non-burrowing mite and causes a dermatitis that has the characteristics of a hypersensitivity reaction similar to scabies and sarcoptic mange.
In man the disease is called scabies and mange in animals.
If they eat at the flesh, it is mange.
The fox numbers go up when people feed them and down when the animals become infected with mange.
Horses also arrive suffering from mange, and are, therefore, unfit for food, but they can quite well be conveyed without cruelty.
Every farmer knows that mange and ringworm persist in buildings and in wood, unless those buildings and that wood are very carefully disinfected.
They must be examined by a veterinary surgeon to see that there is no mange.
