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| What causes Blue eye disease in pigs? | Blue-eye paramyxovirus (BEP - a negative sense single stranded RNA(ssRNA) virus.
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| In what systems are affected by Blue eye disease? | Systems:
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| What ages of pigs are affected by this disease? | All:
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| What clinical signs are generally associated with Blue eye disease in all ages of pigs? |
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| What clinical signs are associated with sows? | In sows the disease causes infertility, reproductive failures, embryonic mortality and return to oestrus in the first third of gestation and stillbirths, small litters and mummification in late gestation.
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| What clinical signs are associated with piglets and weaners? | Piglet and weaners suffer from prostration, hind limb stiffness, generalised weakness, muscle fasciculation’s, retarded growth, depression, excitation, head pressing, circling, hyperaesthesia, abnormal behaviour/aggression and coma.
In piglets the disease also causes changes in hair coat (dull/rough), ocular erosions, enlarged distended bladder and constipation/reduction in faces or diarrhoea. |
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| What clinical signs are associated with boars? | In the boar it causes male infertility, lack of libido, haemospermia, and orchitis with epidydimitis and swelling of the genitals.
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| What is the epidemiology ofBlue eye disease? | The virus can be found in the axon of neurons from its original site of replication, which is thought to be the nasal mucosa and tonsils. It is also found in tissues such as lung, liver, spleen, kidney, lymph node, heart and testis; suggesting that the virus is spread hematogenously.
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| What is the distribution of Blue eye disease in pigs? | The disease is economically important to Central Mexico and its states.
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