Theory question 108
Animal HealthDiscuss each of rinderpest and Newcastle diseases under the following headings: (i) host organism (ii) causal organism (iii) mode of transmission (iv) symptoms (v) control.
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Rinderpest: (i) cattle, also sheep, goats, buffalo; (ii) virus (morbillivirus); (iii) contact with sick animals and their discharges, contaminated feed and water; (iv) high fever, discharge from eyes and nose, mouth ulcers, bloody diarrhoea, dehydration, death; (v) vaccination, quarantine, isolation and slaughter of infected animals, disinfection, control of animal movement
Newcastle disease: (i) poultry – chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl; (ii) virus (paramyxovirus); (iii) contact, droplets in air, contaminated feed, water, equipment and people; (iv) gasping and coughing, greenish diarrhoea, twisted neck and paralysis, drop in egg production, sudden death; (v) vaccination (e.g. Lasota, Komarov), sanitation, isolation, burning dead birds
Both are viral; cover all five headings for each.