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The disease has a long incubation period, and therefore signs usually occur in adult animals (over 2 years of age). [1] Clinical signs resemble a non-specific progressive pneumonia, including poor body condition and, particularly after exercise, respiratory difficulty. [ 2 ]
Symptoms are similar to those of rinderpest in cattle and involves oral necrosis, mucopurulent nasal and ocular discharges, cough, pneumonia, and diarrhea, [11] though they vary according to the previous immune status of the sheep, the geographic location, the time of year, or if the infection is new or chronic. They also vary according to the ...
Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat. [1] As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) is a cause of major economic losses to goat producers in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Disease is caused by members of the Mycoplasma – usually Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum but sometimes by M. mycoides subsp. capri or M. mycoides subsp. mycoides.
Infection is life-long, and it may be years before signs of the disease occur. [2] The reason for the long (and variable) period of dormancy of the virus is not known. [3] In goats which develop arthritis, the joints become inflamed and swollen, and the goats will slowly lose condition. [4] In some cases the goat will not be able to stand.
The USDA reports that since the start of the outbreak in 2022, over 82 million birds and over 200 mammals in the U.S. have been impacted.
Bird flu is a scary illness with a high mortality rate. But so far, infections in the U.S. have been relatively mild—until now. A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of ...
Caprine arthritis encephalitis virus (CAEV) is a retrovirus which infects goats and cross-reacts immunologically with HIV, [1] due to being from the same family of viruses. [medical citation needed] CAEV cannot be transmitted to humans, including through the consumption of milk from an infected goat. [2] There is no evidence that CAEV can cure ...