Veterinary Preventive Medicine-II

PREVENTION AND CONTROL

• Treatment revolves around the generalized inflammation and the depression of serum calcium.
• The inflammation can be treated with phenylbutazone given intramuscularly for eight hourly periods of up to 3 days depending on response.
• Treatment with calcium borogluconate is warranted when signs of hypocalcemia are present.
• Supplementary antibiotic treatments to avoid secondary pneumonia or mastitis are warranted. 
• Vector control is usually impractical in endemic areas. In endemic areas, it is important to immunize cattle; particularly highly valuable animals.
• Both formalin killed and attenuated vaccines are available. Calves aged more than six months vaccinated.
• Trials have been carried out using a limited vaccine based on the envelope-glycoprotein has been developed.