5.2 Common Viral Diseases

Question 1

General -> many organs involved

Answer 1

Hepatitis

• > Vary from slight fever to death
• > infectious canine hepatitis - canine adenovirus 1

Question 2

Blood

Answer 2

Anemia

• > Fever, weight loss, abortion, low iron level in blood
• > Equine infectious anemia - equine infectious anemia virus

Question 3

Skin

Answer 3

Warts

• > Fibrous tumors of the skin on mucous membranes
• > Papilloma Virus

Prox

• > Skin lesions - bumps, blisters, pustules, and crusts
• > cowpox

Question 4

Respiratory

Answer 4

Pneumonia

• > Labored or “flank” breathing, hard deep cough, fever, leukocytosis
• > Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD)-Manheimia haemolytica. There are many viruses that cause pneumonia

Question 5

Reproductive

Answer 5

Abortion

• > Loss of fetus
• > Equine Rhinopneumonitis - equine herpesvirus 1

Question 6

Nervous

Answer 6

Meningitis and encephalitis

• > inflammation of the brain covering causing blindness, paralysis, wobbling, seizures, coma and delirium
• > Encephalomyelitis, distemper, parvovirus, swine pseudorabies

Rabies

• > Throat paralysis, behaviour change, change in bark (dog), aggression in later stages, lack of fear
• > Rabies Virus, Typically fatal