Animal Diseases

Trilogy of Interaction: Human, Animal and Environment with respect to COVID 19

May 1, 2020 Dr. Supriya Yadav

Nowadays we come across lot of posts, wallpaper and pictures depicting that Mother Nature is healing itself. Okay, for instance it’s true as people are contained in their habitats giving rise to less pollution and regeneration of flora and fauna as before. But do we really need this kind of healing, how nature will look when seen standing over a pile of dead bodies. >>>

Animal Diseases

Blood Transfusion in Bovines

May 1, 2020 Dr. Rahul

Blood transfusion is one of the emergency care for the saving of life of animal in case of severe medical emergency conditions. It was first done by Richard Lower in 1665 in dog. Now for the conditions like severe anaemia by various etiological factors, hypovolumic  shock and automobile accidents making more need of blood transfusion in animals. >>>

Animal Diseases

An undiagnosed case of Heartworm in a force dog

May 1, 2020 Dr. Anuradha Nema

Heart worm infestation in dogs is a parasitic disease caused by a filarial organism, Dirofilaria immitis (Genchi et al., 2011). Mosquitoes (Aedes, Anopheles and Culex) can serve as intermediate hosts (Wang et al., 2014). Heart worm infection risk is greatest in dogs and most cases are diagnosed in medium to large sized, 3 to 8 years old dogs living outside. >>>

Animal Diseases

Brucellosis- World leading Neglected Zoonotic disease

May 1, 2020 Dr. Losa Rose

Brucellosis is an important bacterial disease with worldwide distribution and consistently ranked among the most economically important zoonosis globally. Particularly in low and middle-income countries it is more prevalent as the misconceptions about Brucella’s true incidence often arise from underreporting and insufficient monitoring data, a lack of financial resources and capacity. >>>

Animal Diseases

Early diagnosis of Subclinical mastitis (SCM) in HF cows in an organized farm

May 1, 2020 Dr. Ramesh M. Gaddi

Subclinical mastitis (SCM) is subtle and more difficult to detect as the affected cow appears healthy, the udder does not show any signs of inflammation and the milk appears normal. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Streptococcus agalactiae (S.agalactiae) are the leading oganisms to cause  infection of other cows (Bramley et al., 1996 and Riffon et al.,  2001). >>>

Animal Diseases

National Animal Disease Emergency- Control and Management

May 1, 2020 Dr. Gagan Bajaj

Animal disease emergencies are significant public health component which might occur in a major outbreak of a zoonotic diseases. For these emergencies well developed framework should be developed for implementing disease control and eradication programmes and for sharing responsibilities among those departments and agencies without involvement of which this plan cannot be completed. >>>