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Also known as '''Aujeszky's Disease, Pseudorabies, and Mad Itch'''

====Hosts====
*Pigs
*Cattle
*Horses
*Cats
*Dogs
Sheep

====Pathogenesis====
Sows:
*'''Aerosol''' transmission causes bronchopneumonia followed by viremia
*Sows will recover but some may abort
Piglets:
*Virus spreads to neurons, causing '''encephalitis''' with convulsions
*Many die within 2 days
Other animals:
*Air-borne virus can infect skin wounds
*Causes pruritis (mad itch) followed by encephalitis

====Epidemiology====
*Latent virus can be reactivated by mixing new stock in with old

====Diagnosis====
*'''ELISA''' for virus '''antibody'''

====Control====
*England: eradication in the 1980s by serotesting (by ELISA) and culling carriers
*'''Vaccines''' in Europe and Ireland
**gE-deleted '''marker vaccines''' stimulate cell-mediated immunity

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