From: Biological characterization of Pasteurella multocida present in the Saiga population
Location | Date | Population/Mortality (% of those who died by sex and age) | Clinical signs | Pathology | Number of animals/samples |
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Borsy, West Kazakhstan | 19–29 < May, 2010 | 25,000 / ~ 12,000 (Female - 64,0%, male – 0,4%, calves – 35,6%) | According to witnesses and video material: Depression, respiratory distress, bloody froth from nose, saliva discharge mouth, occasional bloat and diarrhoea, rapid death. | Carcasses were 1–2 days old. Pathology incomplete – probe samples. | 3/blood, spleen, lymph nodes, lungs |
Borsy, West Kazakhstan | 20–29 < May, 2011 | 10,000 / ~ 500 (Female - 98,6%, male – 1,4%) | According to witnesses and video material: similar to above | Carcases were 1–2 days old. Pathology incomplete – probe samples. | 2/blood, spleen, lymph nodes, lungs |
Zhangeldinsky region, Kostanay | 17–30 < May, 2012 | 40,000 / ~ 1000 (Female - 93,3%, male – 6,7%) | Depression, discharge from the nose and mouth, diarrhoea | haemorrhages subcutaneous tissue, lungs, endocardium but pathology incomplete –probe samples from fresh carcases. | 14/blood, spleen, lymph nodes, lungs, liver, kidneys |
Zholoba, Kostanay | < 11–19 May, 2015 | 70,000 / ~ 70,000 (Female - 98,2%, male - 1,8%, calves all died) | Depression, weakness, ataxia, frothy nasal fluid and/or saliva from the mouth, terminal diarrhoea, rapid death. | haemorrhages sub-cutaneous - serosal surfaces, epi- and endocardium, lung congestion and oedema, enteric congestion and catarrh, liver and kidney congestion, enlarged gall bladder | 26/blood, spleen, lymph nodes, lungs |
Ortakara, Kostanay, | < 20–26 May, 2015 | 8000 / ~ 8000 (Female - 90,2%, male −9,8%, calves all died) | Depression, weakness, ataxia, occasional nasal/salivary fluid, terminal bloody diarrhoea, rapid death. | haemorrhages sub-cutaneous- serosal surfaces, epi-and endocardium, lung congestion and occasional oedema, haemorrhagic lymph nodes, enteritic congestion and catarrh, liver and kidney congestion, enlarged gall bladder | 6/blood, spleen, lymph nodes, lungs |