Blue Eye Disease Flashcards
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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 causes Blue eye disease in pigs? | Link to Article | ||
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