Sheep are prone to sheep pox in spring. How to prevent and cure sheep pox?

Sheep are easy to get sheep pox in spring, and the prevention and control of sheep pox is the key work of raising sheep in spring. Sheep pox is a febrile acute contagious disease, mainly through the respiratory tract infection, but also through injured skin or mucous membrane infection.

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Main symptoms: typical symptoms, incubation period of 6-8 days, sheep's body temperature rose to 41 ℃-42 ℃. 2-5 days later, obvious erythema could be seen in hairless or hairless parts of sheep skin, such as limbs, lips, nose, cheeks, etc., then erythema appeared in perineum, groin, armpit and even the whole body of sheep, and erythema formed papules protruding from the appearance of the skin after 2 days. Then the papule enlarges and becomes a raised gray or reddish nodule, which forms a blister after a few days. the fluid in the blister is like lymph in the early stage and becomes purulent in the later stage. Sheep pox symptoms are not typical, acne does not appear or show a small amount, or show a hard acne rash, dry and fall off within a few days, will not form blisters and pustules, showing a benign process.

Preventive measures: 1, strengthen feeding management, do a good job of supplementary feeding, properly keep warm, in order to prevent the cold in spring. 2. Check the sheep regularly and find that the sick sheep with sheep pox should be isolated and treated in time, and the sheep with no therapeutic value should be eliminated. 3. Disinfect the sheep house and raising utensils with alkaline solution or bleach regularly. 4. In areas where sheep pox occurs frequently, sheep are vaccinated regularly every year, and sheep with sheep pox are quarantined. Sheep pox chicken embryo attenuated vaccine can be used to urgently inoculate uninfected sheep, regardless of the size of sheep, 0.5 ml is injected into each sheep. It can also be injected with rehabilitation sheep serum to prevent sheep pox, 10 ml per sheep and 3-5 ml per sheep.