Clinical Management in an outbreak of Peste Des Petits Ruminants in Barbari Goats
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2008-03
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Veterinary World
Abstract
Peste des petits ruminants is an acute or sub acute viral disease of goats and sheep characterized by pyrexia, erosive stomatitis, conjunctivitis, gastroenteritis and pneumonia. The name is French for “disastrous disease of small ruminants”. Goats
are usually more severely affected than sheep. It is a paramyxovirus of the genus morbillivirus. It is antigenically very similar to the Rinderpest virus. Peste des petits ruminants was reported in parts of sub- Saharan Africa for several decades and in the
Middle East and southern Asia since 1993. It has been reported in Sudan, Kenya Uganda and Ethiopia. In India, PPR was first confirmed in March 1987 in sheep suspected of having rinderest. It is now believed that many outbreaks in India previously attributed to rinderpest were actually PPR (Taylor, 2002) The disease is particularly devastating as these countries often use small ruminants as components of agricultural food production (EMPRES, 1999).