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A foreign animal disease (FAD) is an animal disease or pest, whether terrestrial or aquatic, not known to exist in the United States or its territories. [1] When these diseases can significantly affect human health or animal production and when there is significant economic cost for disease control and eradication efforts, they are considered a threat to the United States. [2]
The term emerging disease has been in use in scientific publications since the beginning of the 1960s at least [18] and is used in the modern sense by David Sencer in his 1971 article "Emerging Diseases of Man and Animals" [19] where in the first sentence of the introduction he implicitly defines emerging diseases as "infectious diseases of man ...
Torque teno sus virus (TTSuV, swine TTV, porcine anellovirus), belonging to the family Anelloviridae, is a group of virus strains that are non-enveloped, with a single-stranded circular DNA genome ranging from 2.6 to 2.8 kb in size. [1]
A reverse zoonosis, also known as a zooanthroponosis (Greek zoon "animal", anthropos "man", nosos "disease") or anthroponosis, [1] is a pathogen reservoired in humans that is capable of being transmitted to non-human animals.
The disease is endemic in the Indian subcontinent and is a major threat to fast-growing goat husbandry in India, causing an annual loss of around 1800 million Indian rupees. In North Africa , only Egypt was once hit, but since summer 2008, Morocco is suffering a generalized outbreak with 133 known cases in 129 provinces , mostly affecting sheep ...
Besnoitia besnoiti is responsible for two sequential phases of disease: an acute phase, followed by a chronic phase. The acute phase can be lethal or lead to infertility or sterility of males. [ 3 ] The symptoms range from fever, anorexia, depression, followed by vascular disorder.
Journal of Veterinary Medicine may refer to several publications: . Journal of Veterinary Medicine (Hindawi journal) a journal published by Hindawi; Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series A, originally known as Zentralblatt für Veterinärmedizin Reihe A, now known as Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, published by Wiley
PPMV1 or pigeon paramyxovirus type 1 is a virus closely related to Newcastle disease which affects domestic pigeons and other bird species. It probably originated in the Middle East but has spread to Europe, the USA and Australia, where it has the potential to infect and kill native bird species.