Such a thing as “pets” is very common. Pets are not only lovely favorites who live in the apartments of their owners. Because initially pets were called livestock, which included cattle and not only. For those who own pets, this is not only pleasure, but also a stable earnings that feeds the whole family.
Each animal, like a person, has its own immunity and the owner must monitor the health and development of his pets. Because, animal diseases can sometimes be more serious and more complicated than animal diseases. The most important thing is that diseases do not switch to people.
Frequent species of pets on farms are pigs, as they require the least funds for their departure, but at the same time bring high profit for their owners. Pigs, like other animals, have their own spectrum of diseases, some of them may be incurable. One of the most dangerous diseases for pigs that cannot be treated is the African plague.
The consequences of this disease are very terrible, because the percentage of death is very large not only among pets, but also among wild animals. It is worth noting that the disease, having entered your house, will affect all animals, regardless of the age of the animal and the method of spreading the disease.
The only pleasant aspect is that a person cannot get African plague, for people it is absolutely safe. But the animal can cause irreparable harm to the disease. Unfortunately, modern medicine has not yet invented vaccines, panacea or any other solutions that can help to recover from a disease such as African plague.
This disease came to our times from the distant beginning of the 20th century, at least at this time the first outbreaks of the disease were recorded. Then the first death of Pig from African plague in East Africa was registered. The researcher p for studying this disease. Montgomery, which proved its viral nature. Thanks to this study, the world learned about the disease, and in medicine it began to be called Montgomery’s disease. Over time, the virus began to expand its boundaries, and it spread throughout Africa, and after that the outbreaks of diseases began to record in Europe, and after that the American continent was affected.
The process of infection and the first signals of the disease
Each disease has its own symptoms by which the doctor can conclude regarding the disease itself and the correctness of its treatment. But in this case, the symptoms of the disease need to know in order to react in time to such a serious problem that entered your house.
The bearers of the virus are those pigs that are ill, and they managed to get sick of the disease and stay alive, as well as those that are currently sick. In this case, pigs can be carriers of the virus up to two years. The virus has the ability to spread, the African plague spreads through saliva, blood, urine and feces.
At the same time, every owner of pets must know how to protect his animals from the disease. To do this, you need to know exactly how the process of infection occurs.
So, there are several of the most common ways:
respiratory means;
If you move the animals from place to place, it is important to transport in machines and rooms that do not tolerate the infection;
through food;
through insect bites that carry the infection;
Infection distributors can be people, rodents and domestic animals that had contact with an infected animal.
At first glance, many veterinarians cannot distinguish African plague from ordinary swine plague, since both of these diseases have very similar symptoms and external manifestations. The disease does not appear immediately, since it needs to be in the animal’s body for about 2 weeks for its development. The disease itself can have a different shape, namely: acute, subacute, super -built, chronic and asymptomatic.
During the acute form, the death of the animal occurs in a week, in a super -construction form the disease acts much faster and death is inevitable in a couple of days. The subacute form flows much longer than the rest and can take a month, after which it flows into a chronic form and the animal dies from the strong exhaustion of the whole organism.
Often all cases of African plague proceed in acute form, and are manifested in the form of an increased temperature that does not fall until the death of the animal. But this is not the only symptom, as they still observe oppression in animals, the lack of any interest in food, holding the breath, sometimes it is accompanied by a cough, as well as uncertainty in movements.
Outwardly, the animal also suffers changes, because hemorrhages on the skin and spots begin to appear, if you click on them, they will immediately pale. Some pigs have an disorder of the stomach.
How to avoid the disease
Doctors offer not to treat the disease, but to try to do everything to prevent its appearance, because it is much easier to do this than treating an existing problem.
In order for the African plague to not reach your home, you need to follow a few simple rules:
food for your animals must be purchased in the territory that has passed heat treatment, as well as before use, carry out its processing;
every day it is necessary to disinfect the entire farm;
Do not allow other people’s pigs to contact your animals, as well as avoid the appearance of birds on the farm that can carry the virus;
purchase animals only with veterinary documents;
In time vaccinate your animals.
Only in this way can you protect your pigs from the disease. If you still allow the penetration of the disease into the territory of your farm, then you will need to isolate sick animals in the first stages and save them from torment. After which you will need to show increased attention to the rest of the animals of the herd in order to be sure that no one else is sick.
African plague in Russia
In Russia, the African plague is much less common than in Africa, but still outbreaks of the disease are present. In the year before last, the outbreak of the disease was recorded in the Krasnodar Territory, as a result of which the authorities were forced to introduce an emergency regime. And last summer the disease was reached to the Tver region, and several cases were recorded in two areas, namely: in Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod. And this year the disease reached the Moscow region.
Researchers of Russia are actively studying this problem, and all that they understood is that it is necessary to make decisions at the state level, and this is the only way to expel the disease outside the country. At the moment, the situation is normal, since in Russia there are no insects that carry the disease.