Animal Diseases JSS3 Agricultural Science Lesson Note

ANIMAL DISEASE 

Animal disease is an impairment of the normal state of an animal that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. 

African horse sickness

African horse sickness (AHS) is a highly fatal, non-contagious, infectious

disease of horses, mules, and donkeys caused by AHS virus.

African swine fever

African swine fever (ASF) is a hemorrhagic fever of domestic pigs that usually causes very high mortality within a short time after infection.

Avian influenza

Influenza (flu) viruses (AIV). AIV frequently replicates  among birds in a

form of low pathogenicity (LPAIV). 

Bluetongue

Bluetongue (BT) is a ruminant disease caused by an Orbivirus transmitted by midges. There are at least 24 serotypes of the Bluetongue virus… 

Classical swine fever

Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera is a highly contagious viral disease of swine (pigs and wild boar). Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is caused by infection with a tick-borne virus, a Nairovirus in the familyBunyaviridae.

Foot and mouth disease

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a contagious viral disease that can rapidly spread to cloven-hoofed animals.

Lumpy skin disease

A pox virus of the genus Capripoxvirus causes the Lumpy skin disease virus. The genus Capripox virus has three viruses affecting ruminants.

 Newcastle disease

Newcastle disease (ND) is a contagious and viral disease affecting many species of birds. Newcastle Disease is caused by the virus family called, Paramyxoviridae. 

 Peste des petit ruminants

Peste des petit ruminants (PPR) is a contagious viral disease. Small ruminants (goats, sheep) are animals that primarily pay a heavy price to the viral disease.

 Rift Valley fever

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral zoonosis that primarily affects animals but can infect humans.

 Rinderpest

Rinderpest virus (RPV), a member of the genus Morbillivirus in the family Paramyxoviridae, causes an acute and often fatal disease in cattle and other ruminants.

 Schmallenberg virus

Schmallenberg virus (SBV) causes congenital malformations and stillbirths in cattle, sheep, goats, bison, and possibly camelids.