| CAUSAL AGENT: | Bird Paramixovirus type 1 |
| SYMPTOMS: | 1 – Digestive upheavals: Virus – vicerotropo - Liquid Excrements —-> (as water) - Intense thirst (it can increase to 4-5 times the consumption) 2 – Nervous upheavals: - vírus neurotropo - Slight tremors of head. - Difficulty to peck grains (it affects the optical nerve). - Problems of balance: it falls for a side or back towards (pirouettes) - Torticolis: of 0º – 180 º - Problems in sight with discolouration of an eye. - Paralysis of a wing or the two. - Paralysis of a leg or the two. 3 – Breath upheavals (Vírus neumotropo) - Conjuntivitis, coriza, death rattle. (They are not frequent) |
| DIAGNOSE: | Laboratory, by examination of the blood. |
| TREATMENT: | To eliminate sick pigeons of small value. To isolate the pigeons that we want to treat. Reduce to normality the water consumption (50 cs per day). To fulfill the food trays or to give them to eat with a sleeve or syringe. To administer together: - Antibiotics (Tetraciclinas, enrofloxacina, etc.) - Amino acids - Vitamins - Levamisol (to stimulate the defenses). |
| PROPHYLAXIS: | Cleaning and disinfecting of the loft. |
| VACCINATION: | a) Dead virus: or inactivated in watery solution. Intramuscular or subcutaneous. Immunity: a year COLOMBOVAC (Holland) b) Alive virus: Cepa B1 or La Sota. In the water of drink and by nasal or ocular drop. Immunity: 2 months. On the 4th day of applied the vaccine to the alive virus it is advisable to make the following recipe: - Levamisol: 1-2 days - Vitamins, Antibiotics and Amino acids: during 4-5 days. |
| IMPORTANT: | It is an obligation of the Fancier to denounce or to communicate to his society a bud of this disease in his loft, so that all the other people can take their own precautions. |