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Top: Health: Animal: Birds: Conditions_and_Diseases: Infectious_Diseases
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Please submit only websites, articles, or studies pertaining to infectious diseases of birds to this area (or to one of its subcategories.) |
An infectious disease is one capable of producing disease or of producing an infection.
This category is for sites about Newcastle Disease, a contagious disease of poultry and wild birds caused by the virus NDV.
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Submit sites that pertain to Proventricular Dilatation Disease (PDD), or by its other names - Proventricular Dilatation Syndrome, Neuropathic Gastric Dilatation, or Macaw Wasting Disease.
Sites submitted must be unique in content to be considered for this category. |
Proventricular Dilatation Disease (PDD) is a wasting type disease that can affect and is fatal in captive and free-ranging birds; especially young birds.This disease was first recognized in 1971 and since then has been seen in many species including cockatoos, conures, grey parrots, cockatiels, Eclectus parrots, thick billed Amazons, Blue fronted Amazons, and budgies, as well as macaws.
This disease is thought to be caused by a virus and can be passed on to other birds, but not humans.
It is also known as Proventricular Dilatation Syndrome, Neuropathic Gastric Dilatation, or Macaw Wasting Disease.
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