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Peste des petits ruminants has been widely present in southern India since, if not before, the late 1980s |
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| Authors: | Taylor W P Diallo A Gopalakrishna S Sreeramalu P Wilsmore A J Nanda Y P Libeau G Rajasekhar M Mukhopadhyay A K |
| Institution: | a 14 Beach Crescent, Littlehampton BN17 5NT, UK b Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Dévelopement (CIRAD), Programme Santé Animale, TA 30/G Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France c Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, India d Indo Swiss Project, VBRI Premises, Shantinagar, Hyderabad 500 028, India e Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit, Department of Agriculture, University of Reading, RG6 6AT, UK f D2 45/1, Andrews Ganj, New Delhi, India g National Project for Rinderpest Eradication, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi, India |
| Abstract: | Because previous authorities had suggested that small ruminants were playing a part in the dissemination of rinderpest, and a rinderpest-eradication campaign was about to begin, it was necessary to make precise virus identifications from a number of small-ruminant “rinderpest” outbreaks. When this was done using a database created from passive disease reports, we found that epidemics—reportedly due to rinderpest—were in fact due to peste des petits ruminants (PPRs). Although such cases had been common in India for a number of years, earlier clinical and laboratory reports no longer should be regarded as definitive. PPR outbreaks have been frequent in recent years. Further, we suggest that PPR is not a recent invader of India. |
| Keywords: | Small ruminant-microbiological disease Rinderpest Epidemics Database India |
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