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Atrophic rhinitis of swine

Atrophic rhinitis of swine (porcine atrophic rhinitis, sometimes called bullnose) is a pig disease with turbinate bone atrophy; nonprogressive form from Bordetella bronchiseptica, progressive form from toxigenic Pasteurella multocida, now rare after eradication programs.

Bovine viral diarrhoea

Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD, BVDV, mucosal disease), a Pestivirus infection of cattle causing enteric, respiratory, reproductive disease and lifelong persistently infected calves; first described 1946, subject of eradication programs.

Infection with tilapia lake virus

Infection with tilapia lake virus (TiLV disease, syncytial hepatitis of tilapia): a WOAH-listed contagious RNA virus disease of farmed and wild tilapia causing 10–90% mortality, liver and brain lesions, spread by horizontal and vertical transmission, with no commercial vaccine.

Paratuberculosis

Paratuberculosis, or Johne's disease, is a chronic, incurable wasting enteritis of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), a WOAH-listed disease spread via feces, milk, and colostrum, with a possible Crohn's disease link.

Porcine epidemic diarrhoea

Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), also called porcine epidemic diarrhea syndrome, is a non-zoonotic viral pig disease caused by a coronavirus, first reported in 1971 and most lethal in newborn piglets.

Pullorum disease

Pullorum disease, or bacillary white diarrhea, is a septicaemic Salmonella Pullorum infection of young chicks transmitted via the egg; eradicated from US commercial poultry through the NPIP by 1967.