Veterinary Preventive Medicine-II

DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION AND CONTROL

Diagnosis

• Based on clinical signs
• No reliable serological or immunological tests
• Materials to be collected- Lesions on the oral, nasal, ocular lesions, enlarged LN

Differential diagnosis

• Rinderpest
• Mucosal disease
• Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis

Prevention and control

• Inactivated or live vaccines with suitable adjuvants induce antibodies against MCFV.
• In the absence of a vaccine, the only effective strategy is to limit contact between MCF susceptible species and the natural hosts of the virus.
• Sheep has been considered as a spreader of field outbreaks. Therefore, rigid separation of cattle from sheep is suggested.
• The feed used by ewes and lambs should not be provided to cattle.
• Avoid contact between reservoir host (wildebeest and wild rabbits) and cattle