Significant infectious diseases

SIGNIFICANT INFECTIOUS DISEASES

 

Disease

Hosts affected

Trypanosomosis

Boids, equids, canids, felids, equids, suids etc.

Glanders (Pseudomonas malle )

Equids like wild ass, zebra etc.

FMD (Aptho virus)

All artiodactylids

Hog cholera (Toga virus)

Suids

Haemorrhagic septicemia

Bovids in particular

Japanese B encephalitis (Flavivirus)

Suids, equids and man.

Louping ill (Flavivirus)

Bovids, shrew, wild sheep, wood mouse and man

Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)

Equids

African swine fever

Suids

African horse sickness

Equids and canids

Teschen disease (Enterovirus porcine 1)

Suids

East coast fever (Therileriasis)

Bovids

Rift Valley fever, Bunyavirus

Wild sheep and wild goat

Peste des petits ruminants (Paramyxo viruses)

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