However, the result can be various forms of toxaemia caused by a variety of ticks.
Symptoms in humans are due to allergic responses or systematic toxaemia caused by waste products of the tapeworm.
He thinks that those two factors are associated, and that ante-natal supervision has definitely contributed to that fall, and particularly to a reduction in the recognised toxaemias of pregnancy.
A number of affected sheep showed liver damage, but in the majority of cases this was commensurate with concurrent disease such as fluke infestation or pregnancy toxaemia.
It is not unusual for women in such conditions as toxaemia of pregnancy and threatened premature confinements to spend the last two months of their pregnancy in the ante-natal ward.
That was ignored and led to repeated illness-in time, it would have resulted in toxaemia.
Her mental condition had been due to her general debility and toxaemia from the pneumonia.
On the other hand, the apparent lack of elevated blood pressure reported by several investigators may suggest that pregnancy toxaemia in sheep is not a reliable animal model of preeclampsia.