Teschovirus encephalomyelitis in the Republic of Haiti (previously enterovirus encephalomyelitis or Teschen/Talfan disease)

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Teschovirus encephalomyelitis in the Republic of Haiti (previously enterovirus encephalomyelitis or Teschen/Talfan disease)

No. 4 - 2009

Year of publication 2009

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 3p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Newsletter

Series title EMPRES Focus On

Series number No. 4 - 2009

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Synopsis (short abstract) This disease was described for the first time in Czechoslovakia in 1929, in the city of Teschen (where it was once known as "Teschen Disease"). During the 1940s and 1950s it spread across Europe, followed by the United States, Canada, Australia and fi nally into Uganda and Madagascar, causing huge losses to the pig industry. The clinical signs of the disease are uncommon, although there is serological evidence that variants of viruses of low virulence are circulating in pig populations.

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