What is the symptoms for the disease rinderpest?

Answer 1

Clinical signs of the disease may include:

• temperature rise in the early stages

• animals is off its food, dull and the coat is staring

• sometimes shivering can be seen

• breathing is quick: a watery or mucous discharge flows from the eyes and nostrils; in the latter case there may be a slight amount of blood in the discharge

• in milking cows the secretion of milk is diminished or arrested

• the membrane of the nostrils reddens, and an eruption, like grains of bran, appears in the nostrils and inside the lips and cheeks - this eruption is often followed by distinct ulceration

• the animal is at first constipated, but in the later stages diarrhoea often sets in - in this case the dung has a foul smell and is often tinged with blood.

The animal rapidly loses condition and the disease usually terminates fatally in from 6 to 10 days. Rinderpest does not attack single animals in a herd, but spreads rapidly from one to another.