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Aujeszky's disease

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Aujeszky's disease
a disease primarily of pigs but can occur in other secondary host species; caused by porcine herpesvirus 1 and characterized by respiratory, reproductive and nervous signs. In piglets there is incoordination followed by recumbency and convulsions and most piglets die. In older pigs the predominant signs are dyspnea, coughing, sneezing and nasal discharge. Nervous signs follow in some pigs. The mortality rate is low. Infection of sows in late pregnancy causes abortion and stillbirths or mummified fetuses. In secondary hosts infection is acquired from pigs and nervous signs predominate. In cattle the disease is characterized by frenzied scratching, intense excitement, paralysis, convulsions and death of all affected animals. Called also pseudorabies, 'mad itch'.


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A serological survey on classical swine fever (CSF), Aujeszky's disease (AD) and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus infections in French wild boars from 1991 to 1998.
The unidentified farm, based in the Chester area, is undergoing emergency tests after its livestock were in contact with an Essex abattoir where a suspected case of Aujeszky's disease was identified last week.
VETS have found what may be signs of Aujeszky's disease - which was wiped out 13 years ago - in six pigs at the Cheale Meats abattoir.
 
 
 
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