Livestock production in Nigeria is faced by a number of problems, amongst which are malnutrition and gastrointestinal parasitic diseases. These problems are not without deleterious effects in man. In this piece, the afore-mentioned problems of livest...
Aetiology Egg drop syndrome virus is a naturally occurring adenovirus of ducks and geese which have infected and caused disease in chicken. It grows to very high titre in embryonated duck eggs but poorly in chicken embryo. Transmission Three patter...
This disorder is a lympho-propagative neoplasm of domestic fowl caused by the same subgroup of RNA viruses that are pluripotential in their pathological manifestation. Oncogenic spectrum is influenced by origin of the virus, virus dose, route of in...
This is an infectious and highly contagious viral lympho-proliferative disease which may be readily transmitted to young susceptible chicks with the inoculation of blood or tumor cells of the affected cells. Aetiology The causative agent is a cell ...
This is the viral disease of domestic birds characterized by the development of nodular proliferative skin lesion on the non-feathered part of the body. Aetiology It is caused by fowl/ turkey/ pigeon virus belonging to the genus Avipox. The virus g...
This disease is a very acute and contagious viral disease of chicken characterized by extensive damage of B lymphocytes in bursa of fabricius and other lymphoid tissue including the spleen, thymus and caecal tonsil. It is worldwide in distribution....
This is a contagious viral disease of all avians characterized by varying pathogenicity and clinical and pathological lesions in two or more systems of the body including the digestive, respiratory and nervous system. It is capable of causing very ...
The federal government has been blamed long ago for the chaotic situation of things in the country and most especially in the teaching and general hospitals. Somehow, it looks ridiculous having two counters selling drugs in the same hospital. One c...
Almost all diseases are hinged on stress. Some authorities estimate that at least one and half of general medical practice is for such stress induced diseases. These diseases are considered by some medical experts as to be protective measures taken...