Picture Book on Infectious Poultry Diseases

Dear User,

This "Picture book on infectious poultry diseases’’ is a collection of pictures of different but clinically similar diseases that could be mistaken on clinical appearance for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. It has been compiled as a tool for extension personnel involved in avian disease awareness work and poultry owners in detecting Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza should it occur the currently free southern African region. The book has been used also as a training tool during trainings of animal health and farmers courses in SADC countries.

CONTENTS: 

Acknowledgements - ii

Introduction  - 1

Anatomy of chicken - 2

Viral disease - 3-4

1. Avian Influenza

2. Fowl pox - 5

3. Infectious Bronchitis - 6-7

4. Gumboro - 8

5. Marek`s Disease - 9-11

6. New castle Disease - 12-13

Bacterial Disease - 14

1. Fowl Cholera - 14

2. Infectious Corzy - 15

Parasitic Disease - 16

1. Coccidiosis (Eimeria necatrix) - 17

1. Coccidiosis (Eimeria tenella) - 17

2. Heterakis - 18

3. Ascarades - 18

Acknowledgements:

ECTAD Southern Africa acknowledges the contribution of the

following;

• Dr. Jenica Lee, DVM from Ceva, Malaysia

• Dr. Vincent Turblin DVM from Ceva Asia-Pacific

• Paul Selleck, Research Scientist from Australian Animal Health

Laboratory.

• FAO ECTAD, Regional office for Asia and the Pacific

These partners have made available their pictures to the collection as

presented in this training booklet.

The financial contribution of USAID, SIDA and CIDA to the production

and printing costs of the booklet are gratefully acknowledged.

File Size: 5 MB