15 animal virus causing disease
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You can find information on a numerous amount of viral animal diseases below. Discontools provides information for 52 infectious diseases of animals and aims to keep the information updated.
Horses
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 haemmorhagic fever of domestic pigs which usually causes very high mortality within a short time after infection....
Avian influenza
Avian influenza
Influenza (flu) viruses (AIV). AIV replicates frequentlly among birds in a form of low pathogenicity (LPAIV).
Bluetongue
Bluetongue (BT) is a disease in ruminants caused by an Orbivirus that is transmitted by midges. There are at least 24 serotypes of 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, aNairovirus in the familyBunyaviridae.
Foot and mouth disease
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a contagious viral disease that can spread very rapidly of cloven-hoofed animals.
Lumpy skin disease
The Lumpy skin disease virus is caused by a pox virus of the genus Capripox virus. The genus Capripox virus, has three virus affecting ruminants: the...
Newcastle disease
Newcastle disease (ND) is a contagious and viral disease affecting many species of birds. ND is caused by a virus of the family 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...
Porcine Epidemic diarrhea (PED)
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) was first reported in the United Kingdom in 1971. The disease was characterized by severe enteritis, vomiting, watery...
Rift-Valley fever
Rift Valley fever
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral zoonosis that primarily affects animals but also has the capacity to infect humans.
Rinderpest
Rinderpest virus (RPV), a member of genus Morbillivirus in the family Paramyxoviridae, causes an acute and often fatal disease in cattle and other...
Schmallenberg virus
Schmallenberg virus (SBV) causes congenital malformations and stillbirths in cattle, sheep, goats, bison and possibly camelids.
Sheep pox and goat pox
The genus Capripoxvirus, has three virus affecting ruminants: the sheep pox, the goat pox and the lumpy skin disease.
Viral diseases in aquaculture
Infectious diseases pose one of the most significant threats to successful aquaculture. A number of serious viral diseases in fish are notifiable...
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus (WNV) is one of the equine arboviral encephalitides and as such, can cause encephalitis (a serious nervous disease) in horses, which...