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UNDIAGNOSED DEATHS, CAPRINE - NEPAL: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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Date: Wed 24 Jun 2009
Source: The Himalayan Times [edited]
<http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Cattle+disease+breaks+out+in+Khotang&id=MTQxNjk=>
More than 130 goats have died of a disease in Khotang's Khidima
Village Development Committee. The ailment with symptoms of scabies
and coughing has spread in goats in Wards No 4, 5, and 6 of Khidima
over the past 2 weeks.
[Byline: Rastriya Samachar Samiti]
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Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Susan Baekeland
[An infectious caprine disease characterised by pulmonary involvement
("coughing"?), skin lesions ("scabies"?), and mortality (the rate is
not given in the newswire above) may be attributed primarily to
sheep/goat pox, a disease known to be endemic in Nepal. Other
diseases, which should be taken into consideration in the differential
diagnosis are: PPR (peste des petits ruminants) and pasteurellosis
(both endemic in Nepal, but no skin involvement) as well as CCPP
(contagious caprine pleuropneumonia; similarly without skin lesions;
its status in Nepal ius not available, except "not reported in 2008").
See also commentary in ProMED-mail archive no. 20090124.0317.
Results of the epidemiological/laboratory investigations from Nepal
will be appreciated.
For the location of Khotang see the HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map at
<http://healthmap.org/r/00uI>. - Mod.AS]
[see also:
Undiagnosed deaths, caprine - India: (UL), RFI 20090124.0317
2007
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Peste des petits ruminants - China (Tibet): OIE 20070727.2419
Peste des petits ruminants - Nepal: suspected, RFI 20070423.1324
1998
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Peste des petits ruminants: origin & distribution(02) 19981012.2007
Peste des petits ruminants: origin & distribution 19980926.1926]
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