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Maedi Visna

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ID 692583 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain stockbreedingclassified zoologyveterinary medicine
Maedi Visna preferred
  • a chronic pneumonia of sheep caused by a lentivirus,which also causes visna when it invades the brain of sheep.In maedi the characteristic features are a prolonged incubation period of more than two years,a progressive pneumonia which lasts for about six months,and,at the inevitable death,an abnormally high density and heaviness of the lungs
Maedi Visna preferred
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  • This period shall be reduced to 12 months if the animals infected with Maedi Visna or caprine viral arthritis/encephalitis have been slaughtered and the remaining animals have reacted negatively to two tests recognized under the procedure set out in Article 15, or which, without prejudice to compliance with the requirements for other diseases, provides, for one or more of the abovementioned diseases, within the framework of a programme approved in accordance with Articles 7 and 8, health guarantees which are equivalent for the said disease or diseases ...
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