Bovine Virus Diarrhea (BVD)
Definition:

Bovine virus diarrhea, decease mostly in cattle animals. This increases deaths and reduces productivity. From the family of flaviviridae, pestivirus is the main cause of this decease same as the classical swine fever. Compare to hepacivirus to human, (BVD) share many similarities on its molecular biology.


Diagnosis:

Animal suspected with the virus must take test for PI status. Eliminating pi animals reduces the risk of death possibilities. Pi test can be expensive but there are practical procedures to decrease Typhoid Mary. Two types of tests are available, one using the blood and the other using skin sample.


Treatment:

Treatments to bovine virus diarrhea are self limiting and subclinical. There is no effective medication for animal infected with the virus. Fluid, supportive therapy and antibiotics is advisable to prevent secondary infection. Vaccination of cattle has been the main approach to control (BVD). Prevention of the decease into the animals and eliminating infected PI animal from your herd is the most important step to prevent (BVD).


Symptoms and Signs:

(BVD) infected animals usually do not show any signs of decease. Infected animal reduces their immune and get more vulnerable to illness and animal resistance decrease. The lungs become prone to bacteria such as Mannheimia Mannheimia and other bacteria that can cause shipping fever. Acute bovine virus diarrhea usually leads to high fever and affect the respiratory of cattle animals.


Causes:

Bovine virus diarrhea can result in a variety of decease, mostly caused by virus, which grouped into two genotypes type 1 and type 2. The same but, animals infected with the syndrome caused by type 2 is more severe. The decease syndromes in infected animal with (BVD) virus mostly attributed with the time they got infected with the virus and the characteristics involve.