Blue Eye Disease

Also known as: Blue-eye—BE—Blue eye syndrome—Porcine paramyxovirus blue eye disease—PPBED.

Introduction

Blue eye disease is caused by the virus Blue-eye paramyxovirus (BEP). It casues nervous, reproductive and respiratory signs in its domestic host, the pig.

Clinical Signs

Nervous disorders, corneal opacity and reproductive failure in sows and

In the boar it casues male infertility, lack of libido, haemospermia, and orchitis with epidydimitis.

Distribution

The disease is economically important to central Mexico and it's states.

References

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