Ovine rinderpest, also commonly known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR), is a contagious disease primarily affecting goats and sheep; however, camels and wild small ruminants can also be affected. [2] PPR is currently present in North, Central, West and East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia [3] and Southern Europe. [4]

Rinderpest is a highly contagious disease that had been known since humans initiated the domestication of livestock. The disease primarily affects cattle, buffaloes, yaks, and several other domesticated and wild even-toed ungulates.

Jun 22, 2018 · Seven years ago, the global public health community declared the eradication of rinderpest, a severe viral disease of cattle. But today, Bulgaria says it's dealing with an outbreak of ovine rinderpest. They are two different, but closely …

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is also known as ‘goat plague’, ‘Kata’, ‘syndrome of stomatitis-pneumoenteritis’ or ‘ovine rinderpest’. It is an important infectious viral disease of domestic and wild small ruminants that threatens the food security and sustainable livelihood of farmers across Africa, the Middle East and Asia ...

Dec 9, 2024 · 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. It was reported first in Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) in 1942, and subsequently in other parts of West Africa.

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a serious viral disease of sheep and goats, with morbidity and mortality rates than can approach 80-100% in naive populations. Clinical cases have also been recognized in various antelopes and wild relatives of sheep and goats, and occasionally in camels, some cervids and water buffalo.

Dec 11, 2024 · Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious viral disease of small ruminants (goats and sheep). Camels and small wild ruminants are susceptible to this virus. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) has identified PPR as a disease that requires reporting, with a target eradication date of 2030.

Apr 3, 2015 · Also called ovine rinderpest, PPR kills up to 90% of the animals it infects within days. The virus has spread rapidly over the past 15 years and is now present in 70 countries, putting 80% of the world's more than 2 billion goat and sheep at risk.

Rinderpest in cattle and buffaloes is marked by fever with ocular and nasal discharges and is capable of causing high morbidity and mortality rates from oral and gastrointestinal tract ulceration, diarrhoea, dysentery, dehydration, protein loss and immunosuppression resulting from lymphocyte depletion.

Dec 19, 2024 · Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) also called ovine rinderpest is a viral disease, caused by a morbillivirus closely related to rinderpest virus, which affects goats, sheep, and some wild...