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Emerging Diseases

EMERGING DISEASES OF LIVESTOCK & POULTRY

Emerging infectious diseases can be defined as those diseases which result from newly identified and previously unknown infections which cause public health problems, either locally or internationally.

Some important emerging diseases of livestock and poultry are listed below.

1. Aujeszky's Disease

Aujeszky's disease causes outbreaks of fatal nervous disease in suckling piglets. It was first reported in the Philippines in 1982, and was controlled with vaccines.

2. Avian Infectious Laryngotracheitis - ILT

Avian Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT) is a disease of poultry caused by a herpes virus, and causes acute respiratory disease.

	□ Bovine genital campylobacteriosis
	□ Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	□ Bovine tuberculosis
	□ Bovine viral diarrhoea
	□ Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
	□ Enzootic bovine leukosis
	□ Haemorrhagic septicaemia
	□ Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis
	□ Lumpky skin disease
	□ Malignant catarrhal fever (wildebeest only)
	□ Theileriosis
	□ Trichomonosis
	□ Trypanosomosis (tsetse-transmitted)
	Sheep and goat diseases
	□ Caprine arthritis/encephalitis
	□ Contagious agalactia
	□ Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
	□ Enzootic abortion of ewes (ovine chlamydiosis)
	□ Maedi-visna
	□ Nairobi sheep disease
	□ Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis)
	□ Peste des petits ruminants
	□ Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis)
	□ Scrapie
	□ Sheep pox and goat pox
Equine	diseases
	□ African horse sickness
	□ Contagious equine metritis
	□ Dourine
	□ Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern)
	□ Equine encephalomyelitis (Western)
	□ Equine infectious anaemia
	□ Equine influenza
	□ Equine piroplasmosis
	□ Equine rhinopneumonitis
	□ Equine viral arteritis
	□ Glanders
	□ Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)