The Cause And Effect Of Anthrax

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The Cause and Effect of Anthrax & Fowl Cholera Abstract Pasteurella multocida causes fowl cholera, a highly contagious and severe disease in chickens and water fowls. It is the most common pasteurellosis of poultry. We used chicken broth as the medium to cultivate the fowl chicken cholera. A different range of animals (from chickens, cows, goats, and sheep) were tested using the vaccine created to see whether or not the animals used would be protected from the fowl cholera. The results depicted that the animals who were vaccinated remained healthy, while the unvaccinated animals died or fell ill. This study has confirmed that animals (chickens, cows, and sheep) when given the vaccination are in no harm from the Pasteurella multocida. Introduction Some call it avian cholera, avian pasteurellosis, or avian hemorrhagic septicemia, but we all know it as fowl cholera. It is seen either as acute or chronic forms, and the clinical signs vary depending on the form of the disease. Symptoms include depression, ruffled feathers, fever, anorexia, mucous discharge from the mouth, diarrhea, and an increased respiratory rate (Mbuthia P, Njagi L, Nyaga P et al., 2008). It is the most common pasteurellosis of poultry. As the causative agent is Pasteurella multocida it is considered a zoonosis. Adult birds and old chickens are more susceptible, but in parental flocks, cocks are far more susceptible than hens. Besides chickens, the disease also concerns turkeys, ducks, geese, raptors, and canaries. The species Pasteurella multocida is subdivided into four subspecies that include the type strain multocida, and three others, gallicida, septica, and the recently described tigris (Harper M, Boyce J, Adler B, 2006). This experiment will consider only the type strain, subspecies multocida. Pasteurella multocida can cause disease in a wide range of animals

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