
Give effects of ectoparasites on their hosts
- Ectoparasites such as ticks and lice can cause anaemia,
- weaken the host by sucking nutrients, blood and proteins from the host causing weight loss
- transmit disease causing organisms for example ticks transmit Tick-Borne Relapsing fever
- damage the skin causing wounds and secondary infections
- cause intensive itching leading to discomfort
- Loss of hair
CATEGORIES General
TAGS Dr. Bboosa Science