Duck Plague on the American Continent

Leibovitz, Louis; Hwang, Jen

doi:10.2307/1588237

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“…Massive outbreaks reported from New York (1967) andSouth Dakota (1973) suggested that the DVE could be enzootic in the region, exploiting the major fly-ways. Similarly, in many duck-producing regions of the world such as Indiana, California, Pennsylvania, Texas and Minnesota in the United States of America, Canada, England, Hungary, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, China, Vietnam, India and Thailand, the disease has been a cause of significant economic losses to the poultry sector primarily due to high mortality, carcass condemnations and reduced egg production (Baudet 1923;Levine & Fabricant 1950;Leibovitz & Hwang 1968a, 1968bGough & Alexander 1990;Campagnolo et al 2001;Converse & Kidd 2001).…”

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“…From 7 days of age to adulthood, natural outbreaks have been reported to inflict huge casualties in a variety of domestic ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), including White Pekin, Khaki Campbell, Indian Runner, hybrids and native ducks of mixed breeding, Muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata) (Jansen 1961;Newcomb 1968;Leibovitz & Hwang 1968a, 1968bCampagnolo et al 2001;Converse & Kidd 2001;Akter et al 2004;Konch et al 2009;Wo zniakowski & Samorek-Salamonowicz 2014), domestic geese (Anser anser) (Jansen & Wemmenhove 1965;Kisary & Zsak 1983) and mute swans (Keymer & Gough 1986). Gray-call ducks, herring gulls (Larus argentatus) and black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) have been found resistant to infection (Van Dorssen & Kunst 1955).…”

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“…An excess of $1 million losses were reported in 1967 during the first outbreak in the United States of America' duck industry of long island, New York (Jansen 1968;Leibovitz & Hwang 1968a, 1968bWalker et al 1969). The virulent strain of DEV can be adapted by several passages in duck embryo and chicken embryo fibroblast (CEF) cell culture (John et al 1990;Mondal et al 2010;Doley et al 2013).…”

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Duck virus enteritis (duck plague) – a comprehensive update

Dhama

Kumar

Saminathan

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Veterinary Quarterly

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Duck virus enteritis (DVE), also called duck plague, is one of the major contagious and fatal diseases of ducks, geese and swan. It is caused by duck enteritis virus (DEV)/Anatid herpesvirus-1 of the genus Mardivirus, family Herpesviridae, and subfamily Alpha-herpesvirinae. Of note, DVE has worldwide distribution, wherein migratory waterfowl plays a crucial role in its transmission within and between continents. Furthermore, horizontal and/ or vertical transmission plays a significant role in disease spread through oral-fecal discharges. Either of sexes from varying age groups of ducks is vulnerable to DVE. The disease is characterized by sudden death, vascular damage and subsequent internal hemorrhage, lesions in lymphoid organs, digestive mucosal eruptions, severe diarrhea and degenerative lesions in parenchymatous organs. Huge economic losses are connected with acute nature of the disease, increased morbidity and mortality (5%-100%), condemnations of carcasses, decreased egg production and hatchability. Although clinical manifestations and histopathology can provide preliminary diagnosis, the confirmatory diagnosis involves virus isolation and detection using serological and molecular tests. For prophylaxis, both live-attenuated and killed vaccines are being used in broiler and breeder ducks above 2 weeks of age. Since DEV is capable of becoming latent as well as shed intermittently, recombinant subunit and DNA vaccines either alone or in combination (polyvalent) are being targeted for its benign prevention. This review describes DEV, epidemiology, transmission, the disease (DVE), pathogenesis, and advances in diagnosis, vaccination and antiviral agents/therapies along with appropriate prevention and control strategies.

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Duck virus enteritis (duck plague) – a comprehensive update

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Kumar

Saminathan

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“…In another classic example illustrating this point, racoon rabies was introduced into the middle Atlantic seaboard of the USA through the release, for hunting purposes, of infected racoons (Childs et al 2000;Dobson 2000). Duck plague and avian cholera, which constitute perhaps the most important emerging diseases in North American wildfowl, were also introduced into the continent through the import of infected domestic waterfowl (Brand 1987;Friend 1987;Leibovitz & Hwang 1968).…”

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Emerging infectious pathogens of wildlife

Dobson

Foufopoulos

2001

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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The ¢rst part of this paper surveys emerging pathogens of wildlife recorded on the ProMED Web site for a 2-year period between 1998 and 2000. The majority of pathogens recorded as causing disease outbreaks in wildlife were viral in origin. Anthropogenic activities caused the outbreaks in a signi¢cant majority of cases. The second part of the paper develops some matrix models for quantifying the basic reproductive number, R 0 , for a variety of potential types of emergent pathogen that cause outbreaks in wildlife. These analyses emphasize the sensitivity of R 0 to heterogeneities created by either the spatial structure of the host population, or the ability of the pathogens to utilize multiple host species. At each stage we illustrate how the approach provides insight into the initial dynamics of emergent pathogens such as canine parvovirus, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus in the United States.

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“…The disease is characterised by vascular damage with tissue haemorrhages, enanthematous digestive mucosal lesions, lesions of lymphoid organs, and retrograde changes of the parenchymatous tissues (Jansen and Wemmenhove, 1960;Leibovitz and Hwang, 1968). Crossneutralisation tests have demonstrated that the aetiologic agent is not antigenically related to other avianherpesviruses (Kaleta et al, 1980).…”

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