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Managing Liver Fluke this Winter

October 15, 2019

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Veterinarian Expert

Ciarán talks about the staggering numbers behind a liver fluke infection and touches on how 2018 and 2019 strategies will be very different because of the mild, moist summer we had this year.

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Ciarán talks about the staggering numbers behind a liver fluke infection and touches on how 2018 and 2019 strategies will be very different because of the mild, moist summer we had this year.

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