DEATH DUE TO SMOKE INHALATION IN A COW
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Date
2018-06
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Abstract
Cattle producers face serious threats to their livestock in face of sudden fires
following accidental or suspicious causatives either within the housing or in establishments
around the barn; as a result they bear severe economic loss owing to the death of livestock.
The department of Veterinary Pathology received an adult female Jersey crossbred cow
carcass for postmortem examination with history of fire accident death. Grossly, highly
congested mucous membranes, scald wounds, linear abrasions on thoracic vertebra,
amorphous dark black soot on nostrils and trachea, pulmonary congestion, edema, atelectasis,
collapse, grey black fluid in the bronchiole lumen of lung, epicardium revealed petechiae and
ecchymosis, cerebral and meningeal blood vessels were congested. Histopathological
examination of lung revealed pulmonary emphysema, edema, atelectasis, fibrosis, charred
carbon particles on the tracheal lumen and submucosa and third degree cutaneous burns.
Animal died due to asphyxia which might be caused by inhalation of smoke and toxic gases.
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TNV_IJSET_2018_7(3)920-924
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Veterinary Science