VCP 411: Medicine Section

PROCEDURES ON SUSPICION

• Take careful history, which may indicate changes of feed composition, exposure to poison or administration of potentially toxic preparation.
• Make a careful examination of the environment to look for the potential pathogens.
• Note the symptoms carefully and the time of their occurrence.
• When there is illness of large number of animals at a time and showing the same symptoms and post-mortem lesions.
• Carefully examine dead animals for signs of struggling, frothy nasal discharge etc.
• For correct diagnosis, it is essential to have the proper collection, preservation and chemical analysis from a forensic laboratory. The following table gives the summary of the samples to be collected in different suspected conditions.