There are a few diseases which appear specific to the buffaloes. By and large, morbidity and mortality rates are higher in new born animals than in any other age group. The common diseases of buffalo calves are:(a) Non-infectious diseases. These include impaction of the meconium, and the formation of hair balls, (b) Infectious diseases, including bacterial enteritis, phenomonia. haemorrhagic septicaemia and rabies, (c) Parasitic diseases. namely nematode parasites of the small intestine Neoascaris vitulorum, Strongyloides papillosus, Paracooperia hodulosa, coccidiosis and external lice infestation (pediculosis).