An epizootic of malignant catarrhal fever

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Extract Bovine malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) has been reported in New Zealand (MacKinnon and Le Souef, 1956 MacKinnon, M. M. and Le Souef, D. H. 1956. Bovine malignant catarrhal fever in New Zealand. N.Z. vet. J., 4: 86–90. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] ) and in other parts of the world (Blood and Henderson, 1968 Blood, D. C. and Henderson, I. A. 1968. Veterinary Medicine, 3rd ed, 479–479. London: Baillière, Tindali and Cassell. [Google Scholar] ). The disease has also been reported in deer in Europe (Huck et al., 1961 Huck, R. A. , Shand, A. , Allsop, P. and Patterson, A. B. 1961. Malignant catarrh of deer. Vet. Rec., 73: 457–465. [Google Scholar] ), North America (Pierson et al., 1974 Pierson, R. E. , Storz, J. , McChesney, A. E. and Thake, D. 1974. Experimental transmission of malignant catarrhal fever. Am. J. vet. Res., 35: 523–525. [Google Scholar] ) and has been seen in New Zealand (G. Shirley, pers. comm.). There is a large amount of epizootiologic evidence that suggests that the causative agent of MCF is transmitted by inapparently infected sheep to cattle (sheep-associated MCF), and that contact spread between cattle does not occur (Plowright, 1968 Plowright, W. 1968. Malignant catarrhal fever. J. Am. vet. med. Ass., 152: 795–804. [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar] ). As well as the sheep-associated form of MCF, which is world-wide in distribution. Plowright etal. (1960) Plowright, W. , Ferris, R. D. and Scott, G. R. 1960. Blue wildebeest and the aetiological agent of bovine malignant catarrhal fever. Nature, Lond., 188: 1167–1169. [Google Scholar] have described a wildebeest-associated form of MCF in Africa from which a cell-associated herpes virus has been isolated from wildebeest and affected cattle and used to reproduce the disease in cattle.

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