Peste Des Petit Ruminant

Peste des petits ruminants ppr is an acute highly contagious world organisation for animal health oie woah notifiable and economically important transboundary viral disease of domestic sheep.
Peste des petit ruminant. The virus is considered to be a major obstacle to the development of sustainable agriculture across the developing world and has recently been targeted by the world organisation for animal health oie and the food and agriculture. Ppr is currently present in north central west and east africa the middle east and south asia. Ovine rinderpest also commonly known as peste des petits ruminants ppr is a contagious disease primarily affecting goats and sheep. Peste des petits ruminants virus causes a highly infectious disease of small ruminants that is endemic across africa the middle east and large regions of asia.
At one time peste des petits ruminants was thought to be restricted to the middle east and limited areas of africa and asia. Peste des petits ruminants ppr is an acute or subacute viral disease of goats and sheep characterized by fever necrotic stomatitis gastroenteritis pneumonia and sometimes death. Peste des petits ruminants ppr also known as goat plague is a viral disease of goats and sheep characterized by fever sores in the mouth diarrhea pneumonia and sometimes death. However camels and wild small ruminants can also be affected.
Peste des petits ruminants ppr also known as sheep and goat plague is a highly contagious animal disease affecting small ruminants once introduced the virus can infect up to 90 percent of an animal heard and the disease kills anywhere from 30 to 70 percent of infected animals. Heavy losses can be seen especially in goats with morbidity and mortality rates sometimes approaching 80 100. It is caused by a morbillivirus in the family of paramyxoviruses that is related to rinderpest. It is caused by small ruminants morbillivirus in the genus morbillivirus and is closely related.
Peste des petits ruminants ppr is a widespread and devastating disease of domestic and wild artiodactyls caused by peste des petits ruminants virus pprv.