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  2. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Causes: A type of prion [3] Risk factors: Feeding contaminated meat and bone meal to cattle: Diagnostic method: Suspected based on symptoms, confirmed by examination of the brain [1] Prevention: Not allowing sick or older animals to enter the food supply, disallowing certain products in animal food [4] Treatment: None: Prognosis: Death within ...

  3. Antibiotic use in livestock - Wikipedia

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    A CDC infographic on how antibiotic-resistant bacteria have the potential to spread from farm animals. The use of antibiotics in the husbandry of livestock includes treatment when ill (therapeutic), treatment of a group of animals when at least one is diagnosed with clinical infection (metaphylaxis [1]), and preventative treatment (prophylaxis).

  4. Bovine respiratory disease - Wikipedia

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    Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the most common and economically devastating infectious disease affecting beef cattle in the world. [1] It is a complex, bacterial or viral infection that causes pneumonia in calves which can be fatal.

  5. United Kingdom BSE outbreak - Wikipedia

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    The outbreak is believed to have originated in the practice of supplementing protein in cattle feed by meat-and-bone meal (MBM), which used the remains of other animals. BSE is a disease involving infectious misfolded proteins known as prions in the nervous system; the remains of an infected animal could spread the disease to animals fed on ...

  6. Mad cow crisis - Wikipedia

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    BSE is a degenerative infection of the central nervous system in cattle. It is a fatal disease, similar to scrapie in sheep and goats, caused by a prion.A major epizootic affected the UK, and to a lesser extent a number of other countries, between 1986 and the 2000s, infecting more than 190,000 animals, not counting those that remained undiagnosed.

  7. Mycotoxins in animal feed - Wikipedia

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    Cereal grains are one of the main ingredient in animal feed. The animals most at risk of having serious problems with aflatoxins are trout, ducklings, and pigs, while cattle are less at risk. Ergot alkaloids are associated with grasses that are produced in a structure of Claviceps called the sclerotia.

  8. Bovine malignant catarrhal fever - Wikipedia

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    Eye Ring. Bovine malignant catarrhal fever (BMCF) is a fatal lymphoproliferative disease [1] caused by a group of ruminant gamma herpes viruses including Alcelaphine gammaherpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) [2] and Ovine gammaherpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2) [1] [3] These viruses cause unapparent infection in their reservoir hosts (sheep with OvHV-2 and wildebeest with AlHV-1), but are usually fatal in cattle and ...

  9. Hemorrhagic septicemia - Wikipedia

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    In India from 1974–1986, HS was responsible for the highest mortality rate of infectious diseases in buffaloes and cattle, and was second in its morbidity rate in the same animals. When compared to foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, anthrax and black leg, [28] HS accounted for 58.7% of the deaths due to these five endemic diseases. [28] [29]