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Animal Diseases > Bird Diseases > Newcastle Disease
... > Infections > Virus Diseases > RNA Virus Infections > Mononegavirales Infections > Paramyxoviridae Infections > Avulavirus Infections > Newcastle Disease

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Newcastle Disease  

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  • don't forget also BIRDS (NIM) or POULTRY (NIM) or specific bird or fowl (IM) & check tag ANIMALS

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  • An acute febrile, contagious, viral disease of birds caused by an AVULAVIRUS called NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS. It is characterized by respiratory and nervous symptoms in fowl and is transmissible to man causing a severe, but transient conjunctivitis.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009521

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