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Egypt - Warns on Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) aka goat plague

sharon sanders

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Office of pandemics declares Egypt ?the rule of goats infected with plague?

Mon, 13/08/2012 - 14:15

Office announced global epidemics in Paris injury Egypt officially ?PPR?, which affects goats and causes of mortality, having notified the General Authority for Veterinary Services, outbreaks in Ismailia and Western virus of small ruminants, and is considered a serious disease is highly contagious, and infects sheep and goats, but it is similar clinically with rinderpest and causes high mortality rates of goats.

The ?PPR? of very fragile virus that can not survive outside the host animal's body except for a few hours only, where the virus die by the sun during the two hours, and loses its effectiveness the strong acids and alkalis.

For his part, said Dr Hussein Qaoud, Professor of Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, said that the wounded animal with the virus make all the output vectors of disease, where they appear in nasal secretions and lacrimal and mucus or feces diarrhea liquid, indicating that the transmission will be directly or indirectly in the a narrow space, and infections occur mainly through inhalation of aerosols contaminated with the virus as it is possible to occur through the eye and conjunctival mucous membrane lining of the mouth.

And the appearance of the disease, said ?Qaoud? that this plague two of them severe and is most common in goats, and symptoms begin after the incubation period of 2-6 days of high temperature which may reach 40 to 41 with the secretions of serous lacrimal and nasal soon turns to Sididip may close the nostril consists of scales on Smallness, leading to sneezing and may cause adhesion eyelashes, and get tongue membrane Davetery a foul odor with swelling of the lips to become an animal is unable to eat after 2-4 days of onset of fever, with the exposed animal to severe diarrhea may be Mkhattiya or instantly; blood, and accompanied the last stages of pneumonia and death often occurs after a week. The ?Qaoud? that goats and sheep, which heal from this virus is gaining immunity for life, pointing to the need to inform the Veterinary Services immediately if any signs of animals, especially in areas that did not show where the disease before even able to Veterinary Services to take precautionary measures to control the disease and prevent its spread and eradicate it from the start

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