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Newcastle disease is a severe, systemic, and fatal viral disease of poultry due to virulent strains of avian paramyxovirus type 1. Clinical signs in unvaccinated birds include sudden death, lethargy, and respiratory distress. Diagnosis is based on laboratory confirmation. Vaccines prevent clinical signs but not infection, and the control of the disease is challenging in enzootic regions. Newcastle disease (ND) is an infection of domestic poultry and other bird species with virulent Newcastle disease virus (NDV). Newcastle disease is not a food safety or public health concern. Virulent NDV is capable of producing a devastating disease in domestic fowl, with vast social and economic consequences. It is a worldwide problem that presents primarily as an acute respiratory disease; however, depression, nervous signs, or diarrhea may be the predominant clinical form. Severity of ND depends on the virulence and genetic type of the infecting virus and host susceptibility.
There is huge population of local and cross poultry birds in the rural areas of punjab Pakistan. They are vaccinated against ND,locally produced in Punjab. butt the pervalance of disease is high. ...
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Laboratory results received today have confirmed Newcastle Disease on a poultry holding in East Lothian. The results from Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge follow investigation of suspect disease at the holding in Fenton Barns, Drem. Newcastle Disease is a disease of poultry. It is not Avian Influenza and has no significant implications for public health. In response to this confirmation the Scottish Executive, Defra and the State Veterinary Service are...
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Brazil reported and outbreak of Newcastle disease on a farm in Rio Grande do Sul at Vale de Real on May 2, 2006. The flock contained 44 susceptible birds with 17 cases including 16 deaths, 23 birds were destroyed. The last occurrence of Newcastle in Brazil was in April, 2001. The state of Rio Grande do Sul has 17% of the poultry production and 24% of Brazil’s first half 2006 poultry exports.
The outbreak comes as Brazil is already facing an approximate 6% decline in poultry exports in the...
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Avian influenza (AI) and Newcastle disease (ND) are poultry diseases of great concern to the poultry industry. The viruses that cause these diseases can be killed by heat. But the exact parameters for inactivating them by pasteurization had not been established—until now.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have shown that the same industry-standard pasteurization temperatures and times established for Salmonella inactivation in egg products can also kill AI and ND viruses....
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Yemen has identified Newcastle disease, common among fowl but harmless to humans, as the cause of chicken deaths which have prompted public fears of a possible bird flu outbreak, officials said on Saturday.
An official who asked not to be named told Reuters that Newcastle disease and not bird flu was behind the chicken deaths in poultry farms in the Arab country. He declined to give further details.
Newspapers quoted residents in some areas as saying large numbers of chickens had died,...
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Restrictions introducted following a case of Newcastle Disease in France earlier this year, have been lifted.
On July 19, 2005, the French authorities notified the European Commission and the OIE (World Animal Health Organisation) of a suspicion of Newcastle disease on a pheasant and partridge farm in the Loire-Atlantique departement. The suspicion was confirmed and notification of the outbreak was given on July 27.
All measures imposed by the European Union regulations had been largely...
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The following is a Ministerial Statement by Ben Bradshaw, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on the recent Newcastle Disease case:
On 11 July 2005, suspicions were raised about the possibility of Newcastle Disease being present in pheasants on an estate in Surrey. We acted immediately on suspicion of disease following the control measures set out in Defra’s Exotic Animal Disease Generic Contingency Plan. The suspect premises were immediately placed...
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Newcastle Disease was confirmed in pheasants on an estate in Surrey on Friday 15th July. The Government is continuing to take balanced precautionary action to control the disease. The Chief Veterinary Officer, Debby Reynolds has reported that by yesterday evening over 5,000 pheasants had been culled humanely.
The Government has activated its contingency plan. Both National and Local Disease Control Centres are in action to ensure effective management of the outbreak.
Veterinary Officers...
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Newcastle Disease has broken out again in Japan. The Japanese authorities have told the OIE (World Animal Health Organisation) that the source of the outbreak is unknown.
Control measures introduced include zoning; all chickens within the affected premises are going to be destroyed; and the premises will be disinfected.
A total of 9,000 chicks were introduced onto the premises on March 29, 2005. These chickens were vaccinated with a Newcastle Disease vaccine on 3 and 4 April 3 and 4. An...
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Newcastle Disease has broken out again in Greece.
The previous outbreak was reported to the OIE (World Animal Health Organisation) in December 2004. The Greek authorities subsequently reported that the outbreak has ended.
The latest outbreak occurred in a village 10 kilometres from the town of Kilkis in Central Macedonia.
A total of 35,000 chickens of different ages of different ages were involved in the outbreak.
Of these, 3,880 has died, and the remaining 31,120 were...
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Cyprus is still striving to get on top of an outbreak of Newcastle Disease.
But two other countries, Finland and Bulgaria, have succeeded in getting on top of outbreaks.
The disease was first confirmed in Cyprus on November 26, 2004. Control measures undertaken partial stamping out, movement control inside the country, vaccination; and disinfection of infected premises - were undertaken.
Ministry of Agriculture officials in Nicosia told the OIE (World Animal Health Organisation) last...
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Further information about an outbreak of Newcastle Disease in Sweden has emerged.
As stated in the emergency report, Sweden received confirmation on July 20, 2004, of the presence of Newcastle Disease virus in a sample collected in a holding of laying hens in the County of Ostergotland ( central east coast of Sweden), and the same virus was detected in another farm, situated approximately 500 metres from the farm where the infection was first detected.
Dr Leif Denneberg, Chief Veterinary...
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