Clinical

Question 1

What does DAMNIT V stand for?

Answer 1

D - degenerative
A - anomalous
M - metabolic
N - nutritional
I - Inflammatory, infection, idiopathic
T - traumatic, toxic

V - vascular

Question 2

What is the purpose of DAMNIT V?

Answer 2

To create a differential diagnosis list

Question 3

What conditions can be confused with seizures?

Answer 3

Epilepsy
Stroke
Tetanus
Intoxication

Question 4

What are some clinical signs of BSE in cattle?

Answer 4

Question 5

What is BSE?

Why is it really hard to diagnose?

Answer 5

Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy - Mad cow disease

Clinical signs may not present until years after infection

Question 6

What causes BSE?

What caused the BSE outbreak?

How are cattle tested?

Who do you report a suspected case to?

Answer 6

Proteins called prions, they are abnormal and harmful

Prions found in meat-and-bone meal from sheep and cattle that was prion infected

Once dead their brain is tested using the BSE rapid screening test (ELISA)

APHA (England, Scotland, Wales (NI is regional))