Translations:Basic Field Epi: Course Resource Book/1003/en

You advise the farmer that causes of pinkeye include:

  • Young cattle
  • Flies
  • Dust
  • Physical characteristics of the animal, eye conformation (bulging eyes), lack of coloured (pigmented) skin around the eyes
  • High sunlight (UV) exposure
  • Crowding (high population density)
  • Feeding long stalky grass