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==Introduction==
==Introduction==
Blue eye disease is caused by the virus [[Blue-Eye Paramyxovirus|'''''Blue-eye paramyxovirus (BEP)''''']]. It casues nervous, reproductive and respiratory signs in its domestic host, the pig.
Blue eye disease is caused by the virus [[Blue-Eye Paramyxovirus|'''''Blue-eye paramyxovirus (BEP)''''']]. It casues nervous, reproductive and respiratory signs in its domestic host, the pig. The disease is not considered a zoonosis.
==Signalment==
==Signalment==
'''Boar'''
'''Boar'''
In the boar it casues male infertility, lack of libido, haemospermia, and orchitis with epidydimitis and swelling of the genitals.
In the boar it casues male infertility, lack of libido, haemospermia, and orchitis with epidydimitis and swelling of the genitals.
==Epidemiology==
The disease is self limited and closed herds will have sporadic outbreaks of the disease once a herd is infected.
==Distribution==
==Distribution==
The disease is economically important to central Mexico and it's states.
The disease is economically important to central Mexico and it's states.
==Diagnosis==
''Blue-eyed disease'' can be diagnosed by a combination of history, above clinical signs, serology, lesions and virus isolation.
A week after infection a serological response can be seen using a virus neutralization test and 2 weeks later with a haemagglutination inhibition test.
The diagnosis can be confirmed using virus isolation on PK15 or primary pig kidney, using samples from infected tonsils, brain or lung.
On post mortem all age ranges have corneal opacity which is mainly unilateral. Piglets show evidence of mild pneumonia, distended bladder and stomach, fibrin strands in the peritoneal cavity and congestion in the brain. Growers show kidney and pericardial haemorrhages aswell as brain congestion.
'''Differential diagnosis''':PRRS and Pseudorabies.
==References==
==References==