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n. - Frequent and watery bowel movements.

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  • The animal has no strength to vomit, diarrhoea is marked while the fluid passed from the rectum is often almost wholly blood.
  • Dysentery may be simply defined as diarrhoea containing blood.
  • According to WHO the main health risk is diarrhoea, which is spread by flies which proliferate near sewage.
  • They are also more likely to have illnesses such as diarrhoea, anaemia, and colic.
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