Sheep pox Drama Script
(Shairo is going on with his herd and he is rumoring while Gulo sees him)
Gulo: Where are you going with your herd?
Shairo: Mr. Gulo, as you know rural life without herds is nothing. Now I want to carry this herd to the
city and I want to sell some sheep.
Gulo: You are right but I remembered something.
Shairo: What kind of thing?
Gulo: There are both sheep and goats in your herd, beware of an illness which has harmed a lot of herds
nowadays.
Shairo: Don’t afflict me with telling me this. What kind of illness is that?
Gulo: That’s called sheep pox.
Shairo: I have never heard this name, what kind of illness is it?
Gulo: It is a dangerous illness.
Shairo: If it is dangerous then explain it to me.
Gulo: It is animals’ skin illness.
Shairo: I didn’t understand. Please explain it to me.
Gulo: This skin disease could be transferred via respiration from one animal to another.
Shairo: (smiles) now I understand you are thinking about fox not pox?
Gulo: No man, it is an illness not an animal.
Shairo: OK, so pox is the name of the illness.
Can you please tell me how is an animal infecting with this disease?
Gulo: Sheep and goats are getting this disease from a virus which is called Cud pox.
Shairo: What is virus?
Gulo: Virus is a microbe, I don’t understand these issues very well but doctors know this issue.
Shairo: You are right; if we want to get information about this issue then we should call Afghan Azad
Radio. You said the sheep pox is a very dangerous disease, why is it dangerous?
Gulo: It is dangerous because it finds fever in sheep and goats then their skin gets wounds and they lose
weights and it causes the animal to die.
Shairo: I didn’t know this yet. Once I was cutting wool from a goat then I saw wounds on its skin but I
didn’t know why does the goat have wounds on its skin.
Gulo: That’s because of this illness.
Shairo: Please tell me how to treat this disease otherwise my entire herd will be infected with this
disease. And also you said this illness could be transferred from one animal to another but I am also
living near these animals, am I not getting infect with this illness?
Gulo: This disease could be transferred but not to humans.
Shairo: Thanks man, you made me happy.
Mr. Gulo can you tell me the signs of this disease, how could we know that an animal is infected with it?
Gulo: The animal gets fever and their eyes and nose spread secretions and after some days their skin
gets wounds.
Shairo: Oh no! Some of my sheep has the same signs, I thought that’s because of cold weather but now I
got that they are infected with sheep pox illness.
Gulo: You have to chick then up with a doctor.
Shairo: Ok why not, But what are other signs of this illness?
Gulo: Other signs are that the wounds on their skin are red color and they get swell and hard.
Shairo: Does this illness have other signs?
Gulo: Yes, These wounds gets deeper and during 2-4 weeks we can see a hard and dry skins above the
wounds.
Sheep pox is more dangerous for an animal while the animal gets more wounds on its skin.
Shairo: You have scared me man, some of my sheep have the same signs which you mentioned.
Can you tell me how to treat this illness?
Gulo: Commonly sheep gets this disease from other sheep; cupripox virus exists in secretions, shit and
in wounds of the sheep and goats. This virus can exist active in carpet, tools and soil. For protecting
sheep and goats from this disease we should not use those equipments which were used for ill animals
but if we want to use it then first we should wash and clean the equipments with anti infection
medicines. Sometimes we have to collect all infected animal and kill them and hide their bodies under
soil. If somewhere huge amount of animals get infected with this illness then for protecting the healthy
animals we should use vaccine to the healthy animals.
Shairo: Even I will vaccine myself, right now I am going to go separate the healthy and unhealthy
animals in the herd .
Gulo: Excellent, if you don’t want your healthy animals to be infected with this illness then separate the
healthy and unhealthy animals.
Don’t be satisfied only with my introduction, you also have to listen to Afghan Azad Radio and ask the
panelists setting in the radio about this illness.
Shairo: Yes I have to call them and I will get their advice about treating my sheep and goats.
Gulo: You have to take good care of your herd then you can sell the animals with a good price in bazaar .
Shairo: Yes I like your advice, I will do as you advised.
Gulo: Now I will go because I have some task to do, but you don’t forget to listen to the radio .
Shairo: No I won’t forget it.
Good bye
(Shairo carries his herd to the doctor for check up and he is sad for his herd.)
END.