Newcastle disease (ND) is a highly contagious disease of poultry. The ND virus (NDV) encodes an error-prone RNA-dependent RNA polymerase which can cause high mutation rate leading to the emergence of ...
FILE PHOTO: Chickens walk inside a coop at a private poultry farming at a ranch in Rio de Janeiro SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government said on Friday an outbreak of Newcastle disease that ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday it has ruled out three potential new cases of Newcastle disease in poultry after testing additional samples taken from animals in the ...
A virulent form of Newcastle disease (vND), “a contagious and fatal viral disease affecting the respiratory, nervous and digestive systems of birds and poultry,” as described on USDA’s Virulent ...
SAO PAULO, July 19 (Reuters) - The world's top chicken exporter Brazil has voluntarily halted poultry exports to some countries after a case of Newcastle disease was detected in the state of Rio ...
Every poultry farmer keeping a large number of birds for commercial purposes is mainly concerned with three or four issues, with the ability to raise flocks with minimum mortality losses (high ...
Wild waterfowl is considered a natural reservoir of potentially infectious agents and a source of pathogenic viruses like avian paramyxoviruses type 1 (APMV 1). In 1997, commercial poultry in ...
Chickens of 7 weeks or 20 weeks of age were divided into three groups according to their antibody status (high, low, absent) and were infected with a velogenic viscerotropic Newcastle disease virus.
Orange color Polish crested chicken on exhibition in a cage. Homeowners with backyard chickens have now given federal agriculture officials reason to worry. A contagious viral disease affecting the ...
Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Dr Sheila Cecily Ommeh at Molecular Genetics Laboratory at JKUAT’s main campus. [David Njaaga,Standard] A distressing ...
Experts warn that the world may see repeated waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, scientists around the world are working hard to create a protective vaccine or antiviral, which could help to ...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government said on Friday an outbreak of Newcastle disease that had blocked its poultry exports has ended and that it had notified the World Organization for Animal ...