• Human infection is normally associated with an occupation involving sheep, goats, and cattle. (cdc.gov)
  • Capripoxviruses cause infection in cattle, sheep, and goats. (cdc.gov)
  • Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV-1) infection in horses can cause respiratory disease, abortion in mares, neonatal foal death and neurological disease. (ca.gov)
  • One person had worked with animals infected with live virus, but it is uncertain how the other person acquired the infection (4,5). (cdc.gov)
  • The virus is naturally occurring in some mosquitoes and the highest incidence of infection is associated with periods of heavy rain and flooding when mosquito populations are at peak numbers. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Travelers to areas where the Rift Valley fever virus is endemic are also under threat of infection, particularly during times of viral outbreak. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Bovine Viral Diarrhea and Mucosal Disease Complex Bovine viral diarrhea/mucosal disease is a pestivirus infection of cattle and other ruminants. (merckvetmanual.com)
  • animal is a potent source of infection releasing the virus in secretions from the respiratory, digestive and reproductive tracts. (gov.scot)
  • Transient infection also has a prolonged impact on an animal's ability to resist the normal diseases of calfhood and it is this immunosuppressive effect that is considered to be of greatest financial significance to the cattle industry. (gov.scot)
  • They can be caused by infection with the viruses of foot-andmouth disease (FMD), vesicular stomatitis (VS), vesicular exanthema of swine (VES), and swine vesicular disease (SVD). (wikisource.org)
  • VS was recognized in horses and cattle in the United States during World War I ( Cotton 1927 ), but infection in swine was not reported until 1943 ( Schoening 1943 ). (wikisource.org)
  • Viral RNA polymerase, a nonstructural protein, has been termed "virus infection associated antigen" (VIAA) for diagnostic purposes but is more accurately termed "FMDV nonstructural protein 3D. (wikisource.org)
  • Conclusion Intranasal application of a live attenuated gE-negative BoHV-1 vaccine is able to afford a clinical protection and a reduction of virus excretion in goats challenged by a CpHV-1 genital infection. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • These clinical signs and the virus presence in nasal, ocular, rectal and vaginal samples suggest both the venereal transmission as the principal virus entry route and infection persistence within herds [11,12]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • These viruses are able to some extent to cross the species barrier and establish infection in heterologous animal species [29,30]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • Experimental reactivation of latent infection of BoHV-1 in goats was successfully performed [31]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • Therefore, it was decided to investigate gE-negative BoHV-1 intranasal route of vaccination in goats with the aim to protect this species against CpHV-1 genital infection. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • To assess the public health risk of human infection from a novel bunyavirus - severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) - in China. (who.int)
  • While not always fatal, infection with the Marburg virus generally causes serious illness. (cdc.gov)
  • Infection with Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus initially leads to influenza-like illness in most people. (medscape.com)
  • Swine are the only known host for this virus. (cdc.gov)
  • Vesicular stomatitis (VS) is a virus caused disease that primarily affects cattle, horses and swine. (ca.gov)
  • TWiV provides updates on the new coronavirus causing respiratory disease in China, the current influenza season, and the epidemic of African swine fever, including determination of the three-dimensional structure of the virus particle. (virology.ws)
  • Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove On episode #89 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season. (virology.ws)
  • On episode #30 of the podcast "This Week in Virology", Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Hamish Young focus on the new H1N1 influenza virus, which originated in swine and is likely to be the next pandemic strain. (virology.ws)
  • Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is a high consequence pathogen. (merckvetmanual.com)
  • Classical swine fever is caused by a small, enveloped RNA virus in the genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae. (merckvetmanual.com)
  • Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) infects cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and many wild species. (virology.ws)
  • The virus, first identified among pig farmers in Malaysia in 1999, likely jumped to humans at that time from infected pigs. (kclu.org)
  • These viruses are highly prevalent in bovine and ovine populations and can infect pigs. (merckvetmanual.com)
  • can infect goats, sheep, South American camelids and pigs. (gov.scot)
  • Out of the four types of influenza viruses, type A viruses cause the most severe disease, and are found in ducks, chickens, pigs , whales, horses, seals and cats, according to the CDC . (livescience.com)
  • The Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) is one of the most contagious viruses in domestic livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. (st-andrews.ac.uk)
  • The journal Veterinary Record says the virus can also infect wildlife, such as gazelles and other small ruminants, some of which are threatened or endangered. (acsh.org)
  • In more modern times, an outbreak in the 1980s killed millions of cattle and wild ruminants across Africa and continued to devastate farmers and pastoralists in some of the world's poorest rural areas. (thedairysite.com)
  • Border Disease Border disease is observed in young ruminants exposed to border disease virus during gestation. (merckvetmanual.com)
  • Bjørnstad, O.N. Identifying Age Cohorts Responsible for Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus Transmission among Sheep, Goats, and Cattle in Northern Tanzania. (gla.ac.uk)
  • We detected influenza D virus antibodies in cattle and small ruminants from North (Morocco) and West (Togo and Benin) Africa. (liverpool.ac.uk)
  • Vaccination is also useful to protect susceptible cattle before they go through a mart. (gov.scot)
  • In 2011, the global public health community declared the eradication of rinderpest, a severe viral disease of cattle. (acsh.org)
  • The term viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) refers to the illness associated with a number of geographically restricted viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease primarily affecting domestic livestock (such as cattle, sheep, buffalo, goats, and camels), but one that can also be passed on to humans. (encyclopedia.com)
  • There are four structural viral proteins, of which VP1 has been shown to elicit protective immunity in cattle ( Bachrach 1977 ). (wikisource.org)
  • Moreover, goats immunised with either gE-negative BoHV-1 or CpHV-1 exhibited a significant reduction in the length and the peak of viral excretion. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • The genital tropism of CpHV-1 was confirmed by the detection of viral DNA in sacral ganglia of latently infected goats [13]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • Moreover, a recent experiment showed that intranasal administration of a live attenuated gE-negative BoHV-1 vaccine in goats reduced the peak viral titre after a nasal CpHV-1 challenge and therefore afforded a partial cross-protection [32]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • Results Clinical and viral responses after intranasal immunisation Goats immunised by intranasal inoculation with virulent CpHV-1 or gE-negative BoHV-1 vaccine remained in good general state of health. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • It is possible because a vaccine exists , and we know that the cattle version of rinderpest has already been eradicated. (acsh.org)
  • To date, a classical inactivated vaccine has been developed [21,22], however, it can not be licensed since the market of veterinary medicinal products for minor species, like goats, is not economically profitable. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • There are 14 distinct viruses associated with haemorrhagic fever in humans. (who.int)
  • the only exception is the four dengue viruses, which may circulate continually among humans. (who.int)
  • he virus is not transmissible to humans. (ca.gov)
  • The disease can also affect many other species of animals and has occurred in sheep, goats, wildlife and occasionally humans. (ca.gov)
  • The virus is passed to animals and humans via mosquitoes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In humans, the virus is symptomatic in 90% of those infected. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Diagnosis of Rift Valley fever in humans is performed through laboratory blood analysis identifying antibodies to the virus. (encyclopedia.com)
  • A field researcher holds a male bat that was trapped in an overhead net as part of an effort to find out how the animals pass Nipah virus to humans. (kclu.org)
  • Q fever is a disease caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, which can be transmitted to humans from animals such as sheep, goats, and cattle. (cdc.gov)
  • Parapoxviruses can infect a variety of livestock animals including sheep, goats, and cattle. (cdc.gov)
  • BoHV-1, a major cattle pathogen, is typically responsible of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) causing severe economic losses in livestock [2]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • Lassa, Marburg, and Ebola viruses are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, and the differential diagnosis of VHF will most often be made for illness in travelers to this region. (cdc.gov)
  • Although the rodent reservoir exists across wide areas of Africa, Lassa virus appears to be restricted to the continent's western part. (cdc.gov)
  • It is caused by a virus from the family Bunya-viridae and is endemic in areas of Africa, but can spread to surrounding regions. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Rift Valley fever was initially limited to the regions of eastern and southern Africa where sheep and cattle are raised. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Folklore maintains that Genghis Khan sent rinderpest-infected cattle into the herds of his enemies to wipe out their food supply, making them easier to conquer, write the media team at the World Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). (thedairysite.com)
  • Other than the fact it is highly contagious and highly lethal, there simply isn't much known about the virus. (acsh.org)
  • The award made by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), with matched funding from India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT), will allow a team led by Professor Martin Ryan to extend their fight against one of the most contagious mammalian viruses. (st-andrews.ac.uk)
  • Many other viruses in this genus infect animals, but the above are the most commonly recognized. (medscape.com)
  • can infect cattle and result in the generation of persistently infected cattle. (gov.scot)
  • to infect cattle and while the frequency with which this occurs is unknown, it has been considered unlikely to be of significance in relation to national control. (gov.scot)
  • Similarly, the housing of camels indoors with cattle increases the risk that the camels will acquire bovine tuberculosis. (scienceopen.com)
  • Dromedary camels in Kenya harbored influenza C or D virus antibodies, indicating a potential new host for these viruses. (liverpool.ac.uk)
  • Since VHF share symptoms with many other diseases, positive identification of the disease relies on laboratory evidence of the viruses in the bloodstream, such as detection of antigens and antibodies or isolation of the virus from the body. (who.int)
  • Diagnostic tests for CSFV detection include RT-qPCR, virus isolation, immunofluorescence assay, and detection of antibodies by serologic tests such as ELISA and virus neutralization. (merckvetmanual.com)
  • Antibodies neutralising both BoHV-1 and CpHV-1 were raised in immunised goats. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • Transmission of leporipoxviruses is primarily through the mosquito although other biting insects such as fleas may also transmit virus. (cdc.gov)
  • 2.2 Transmission of haemorrhagic fever viruses. (who.int)
  • Moreover, it is suggested that sheep might have a role in the transmission of this virus to cattle. (ac.ir)
  • Respiratory tract infections caused by some viruses with cattle origin have been demonstrated in sheep and goats. (ac.ir)
  • A combination of flu-like and neurological symptoms - headache, fever, cough, acute respiratory distress and seizures - alerted them to test for the virus. (kclu.org)
  • The goat genital tract might employ similar homing mechanisms as those of the upper respiratory tract and therefore could receive primed immune cells from the nasopharynx-associated lymphoid tissue (NALT) [36]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • Respiratory viruses are typically spread from person to person by contact with infected respiratory droplets. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Коронавіруси та гострі респіраторні синдроми (MERS та SARS) Coronaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses that cause respiratory illnesses of varying severity from the common cold to fatal pneumonia. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Members of this genus, which also includes goatpox (GTPV) and lumpy skin disease (LSDV) viruses, cause economically significant disease in sheep, goats and cattle. (usda.gov)
  • For the first time, the atypical strains BTV-25-GER2018 and BTV-33-MNG3/2016 as well as the re-emerged classical strain BTV-8-GER2018 were evaluated comparatively in a pathogenesis study in goats-the natural host of atypical BTV. (mdpi.com)
  • Percentages indicate animals in which Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus was detected in feeding ticks. (cdc.gov)
  • Ecosystems that have a lot of diverse animals, like this monkey, also tend to have a lot of diverse viruses. (npr.org)
  • The goal is to figure out the viruses that are lurking inside animals around the world. (npr.org)
  • A substantial number of in-contact animals were included in this study to detect potential contact transmissions of the virus. (mdpi.com)
  • It is necessary for two reasons: First and foremost, though the virus only infects animals, it can deal a severe financial blow to the poor, rural people who rely on them to survive. (acsh.org)
  • The disease caused by this virus is a substantial problem for farmers because infected animals cannot be sold. (virology.ws)
  • The mosquitoes transfer the virus to the animals on which they feed. (encyclopedia.com)
  • animals shed huge amounts of virus and present a significant challenge even to vaccinated animals. (gov.scot)
  • Zoonotic influenza is a flu caused by viruses that originate in animals, or type A influenza viruses. (livescience.com)
  • The viruses in this genus are listed by the World Organizations for Animal Health (OIE: Office International des Epizooties) as important animal diseases that require notification. (cdc.gov)
  • Mosquitoes and fleas are also common vectors for zoonotic diseases, such as the Zika virus (transmitted by mosquitoes) and the bacterium that causes plague (transmitted by fleas). (livescience.com)
  • The characteristics of the viruses that cause vesicular diseases are shown in Table 25.2 . (wikisource.org)
  • EHM is most often due to the neuropathologic strain of EHV-1, but may occasionally be caused by the non-neurologic strains of the virus. (ca.gov)
  • There are two strains of the virus. (kclu.org)
  • Second, we should prevent the virus from further spreading among wildlife. (acsh.org)
  • I work in CDC's Special Pathogens Branch (SPB) where we study highly infectious viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • Some of these viruses cause relatively mild illnesses, while others can cause severe, life-threatening disease. (who.int)
  • Sheeppox virus (SPV) is a member of the Capripox (CaPV) genus of the Poxviridae family which also includes Goatpox (GTPV) and Lumpy skin disease viruses (LSDV). (usda.gov)
  • But there is another type of rinderpest virus that causes disease in sheep and goats. (acsh.org)
  • Closely related viruses are found in other areas, but their potential for causing human disease is poorly understood. (cdc.gov)
  • Although Rinderpest has been officially eradicated since 2011, the box is not closed yet as laboratories continue harbouring the costly virus and researchers hope to learn more about the disease. (thedairysite.com)
  • The disease is caused by the RVF virus, which is a member of the genus Phlebovirus in the family Bunyaviridae. (encyclopedia.com)
  • After challenge, a significant reduction in disease severity was observed in immunised goats. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • They have proven their safety and efficacy in the target bovine species since they are efficacious at reducing disease severity, virus shedding, and circulation in a population [4,5]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS: Rabies is a devastating disease worldwide caused by rabies virus. (bvsalud.org)
  • This disease primarily occurs in the Rocky Mountain region, which is the habitat of Dermacentor andersoni ticks whose bite transmits the virus. (medscape.com)
  • Since most physicians have little or no experience with these viruses, uncertainty often arises when VHF is a diagnostic possibility. (cdc.gov)
  • In cases of Oklahoma tick fever or Kemerovo or Lipovnik virus infections, a tick transmits the virus. (medscape.com)
  • Thankfully, the type of virus that causes rinderpest in cattle is still gone. (acsh.org)
  • Rinderpest virus was arguably the first weapon used in what is now called "bioterrorism. (thedairysite.com)
  • Although rinderpest has been eradicated from fields and pastures, virus samples remain quite alive in the dozens of laboratories that participated in the control campaign. (thedairysite.com)
  • Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) usually is observed in Atlantic and Gulf regions, whereas western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV) is prevalent in the western part of the United States. (medscape.com)
  • Enteroviruses are small, nonenveloped RNA viruses of the picornavirus family with various serotypes. (medscape.com)
  • Frequent exposure to mosquito bites in areas where outbreaks occur will also increase risk of contracting the virus. (encyclopedia.com)
  • That's partially because the farmers and ranchers who are most affected by it -- that is, the ones who derive their living from sheep and goats -- live in poor countries. (acsh.org)
  • They are two different, but closely related, viruses. (acsh.org)
  • Background The subfamily em Alphaherpesvirinae /em includes a cluster of closely related ruminant viruses with bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) as prototype [1]. (groundwater-2011.net)
  • they can be caused by viruses , bacteria , parasites or fungi, and may cause mild or severe illness or death. (livescience.com)
  • The most well known member of the genus is variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox. (cdc.gov)
  • Lassa virus, named after a small town in northeastern Nigeria, is an enveloped, single-stranded, bisegmented ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus classified in the family Arenaviridae. (cdc.gov)
  • These viruses are small (22-30 nm), nonenveloped, and labile below pH 7.0, and they have single-stranded positivesense RNA with approximately 8450 nucleotides that serve as messenger RNA. (wikisource.org)
  • Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a member of the Capripoxvirus (CaPV) genus of the Poxviridae family. (usda.gov)
  • The three viruses are grouped together as pestiviruses. (gov.scot)
  • These factors make current vaccines both expensive and difficult to administer in many areas of the developing world where the virus is endemic. (st-andrews.ac.uk)
  • Varicella-zoster virus, another herpesvirus, causes encephalitis but only in immunocompromised persons. (medscape.com)
  • In June 2009, a novel Phlebovirus from the Bunyaviridae family, subsequently named SFTS virus (SFTSV), was isolated from a patient's blood sample. (who.int)
  • Загальний огляд вірусів Viruses are the smallest parasites, typically ranging from 0.02 to 0.3 micrometer, although several very large viruses up to 1 micrometer long (megavirus, pandoravirus) have recently been discovered. (msdmanuals.com)
  • He flies around the world collecting undiscovered viruses - and he focuses his hunt on viruses with the potential to kill. (npr.org)
  • Increasing evidence of human fatalities has led to Rift Valley fever being termed an emerging virus and one that is considered to pose significant potential threat to communities. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This spread of the virus indicates a potential threat of the virus spreading further into Europe or Asia. (encyclopedia.com)
  • To mitigate this potential risk breeding cattle should not graze in the same field as sheep except in the extensive hill situation. (gov.scot)
  • The potential for influenza viruses to cause public health emergencies is great. (bvsalud.org)