Symptoms and control methods of rinderpest

Rinderpest, also known as intestinal plague or biliary plague, is a relatively ancient disease. It is a septicaemia infectious disease caused by a virus. It is highly contagious, with high morbidity and mortality. Once it spreads, it will directly destroy the whole herd and do great harm. Then in the onset of the disease, how to distinguish and treat, the following pro-agricultural network brings rinderpest symptoms and prevention methods.

1. Pathogen analysis

Rinderpest is caused by the pathogen of rinderpest virus, which mainly harms yellow cattle and buffalo. Although rinderpest has no impact on humans, it can infect pigs, sheep and other livestock. The main source of infection is diseased cattle and infected cattle, which will contain a large number of viruses in the feces of diseased cattle, but they are mainly infected by contact with other cattle. In addition, it can also increase respiratory droplets and mosquito bites.

2. Symptoms

The body temperature of diseased cattle begins to rise at the beginning of the illness, and quickly exceeds 40 degrees. After 3-5 days, the body temperature begins to drop, and when it is about to die, the body temperature is about the same as normal, so the severity of the disease can be judged according to the change of body temperature. At the time of onset, the eyes are congested, the conjunctiva is red, the eyelids are swollen, leaving purulent secretions, the secretions gradually become sticky, and the nose is also colorless to gray thick, accompanied by stench. The nose is congested, the nose is dry, feverish, cracked, and there are yellow crusts, which will reveal the erosive surface below after tearing off, saliva increases significantly and is accompanied by air bubbles or blood filaments. During the period of high body temperature of diseased cattle, oral mucosa congestion, lower lip and gingiva appeared small, with time changes gradually form blisters, rupture after the formation of erosion, and finally form deep ulcers, resulting in large area of oral necrosis. The sick cattle were in low spirits after the attack, and in the later stage, the body temperature dropped, accompanied by diarrhea, bloody feces, and finally died of dyspnea, failure and convulsions.

3. Prevention and control methods

The infection rate and mortality rate of the disease are extremely high, and the disease develops very rapidly. there is no specific treatment for the time being, so we can only give priority to prevention and strengthen epidemic prevention measures. after isolating and observing the imported cattle, we can ensure that they do not carry the virus before they are put into the herd. To strengthen environmental hygiene, to achieve regular cleaning and disinfection, timely vaccination of cattle, generally once a year. When the disease occurs, isolate the entire breeding environment in time, and then report the epidemic situation to the relevant departments in time, disinfect the surrounding environment, destroy contaminated appliances or disinfect with drugs, and cull disinfected animals and animals of the same herd. Then carry out pollution-free treatment of the body to prevent the spread of the disease, a large number of anti-bovine tumor serum can be injected intravenously at the initial stage of the disease, which has a certain inhibitory effect.

The above are the symptoms and prevention methods of rinderpest brought by the pro-agricultural network. This is the end of the introduction about rinderpest. If you want to know more, please pay attention to the pro-agricultural network.