Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) and mucosal disease (MD) are clinically dissimilar disease syndromes and were originally described as separate diseases, but they are now known to have a common viral etiology.
It is an acute highly contagious viral disease of cattle characterized by high temperature, rhinitis, dyspnoea, abortion, meningoencephalitis, keratoconjunctivitis, and pustular vulvovaginitis.
It is an acute, infectious, and fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and goats.
Affected animals develop skeletal muscle damage, severe gangrenous, necrotizing, emphysematous myositis, and fatal systemic toxemia.
It is a peracute, acute, and septicaemic disease of cattle and sheep leading to sudden death.
The extensive enlargement of the spleen given this disease the name splenic fever.
It is a zoonotic disease spread from infected animals to humans during the processing of wool and hides.