| Disease of the costal zones (bordering to the rivers) | |
| CAUSAL AGENT: | A esporozoario of kind PLASMODIUM |
| EPIZOOTIOLOGIA: | There are three factors that condition the maintenance and development of the malaria: - carrying or sick Birds. - transmitting Mosquitos (culex, haedes, anopheles). - the temperature, rains and the flora of region (essential elements for the reproduction of the mosquito) |
| SYMPTOMS: | - Apathy - Fever it raises and low) - Anemia (of there the eye and the white mucous) - general Weakness - Death in the youngsters. After this acute phase, where the symptoms are evident, the plasmodiosis enters a period of diminution of their clinical manifestations and parasitemia to endoglobular arriving at a stage of normality between the 30 – 40 days of begun the symptoms. |
| DIAGNOSE: | Examination of the blood (method of Giemsa). |
| TREATMENT: | Plasmodicidas used in the human malaria: Quitina Atebrina Plasmoquina Cloronquina Pludrina For ex.: the cloroquina or ARALEN MR (2 mg by kg of weight that is 1 mg. by pigeon. 3 doses day by average. |
| PROPHYLAXIS: | Avoid the mosquito:
-Metalic net |
| IMUNIDADE | The cured animals develop certain degree of immunity |