"Nasal Oestrosis in Jamunapari Goat in Barasat, West Bengal, India: A Case Report "

Several oestrid flies causing myiasis in sheep and goats include the Oestrus ovis; sheep nasal bot flies are distributed worldwide.The nasal sheep bot is a cosmopolitan parasite that, in its larval stages, is generally found in the sinuses and nasal passages of sheep and goats causing the clinical condition known as oestrosis.Nasal bot larvae are mostly observed in the nasal cavities and or frontal sinuses sometimes in the maxillary sinuses.Primarily sheep are infested but goats, deer, reindeer, elk, camel, and ibex are also suffering from nasal oestrosis [1].Animal owners are usually unaware of the infestation of maggots or larvae of the sheep nasal bot fly.Cavitary myiasis is expressed by the maggots as a seromucous and or purulent nasal discharge, frequent sneezing, sometimes incoordination, and dyspnea.False Gid is caused by the migratory larvae that penetrate and eat away at the dorsal turbinate bones, frontal sinuses, and occasionally the skull bones thereby entering into the cerebral cavity [2].The present clinical communication reports the occurrence of some O. ovis larvae in the nasal cavity of a Jamunapari goat.