Sentence examples for epizootics of from inspiring English sources

Riemerella anatipestifer (RA) causes epizootics of infectious disease in poultry and results in serious economic losses, especially for the duck industry.

During the 20th century significant epizootics of viral diseases in animals, particularly livestock, occurred worldwide.

The origin of this virus appears to have been epizootics of poxvirus infections in colonies of white rats which were used as food for the carnivores [6].

The study presented here analysed the full-length sequence of Seg-3 from twenty BTV isolates recovered during the 1979 and 1998 2001 epizootics of BT in eastern Mediterranean countries and the Balkans.

Interestingly, high mortalities caused by IHHNV in farmed shrimp have not been recorded since the epizootics of 1990, and wild L. stylirostris fishery landings have increased since that time [9].

AHSV is endemic in tropical and sub-tropical areas of Africa, south of the Sahara [1], but epizootics of AHSV have also occurred outside Africa, resulting in high mortality rates and severe economic loses, such as those reported in the Middle East in 1959, or in North Africa and Spain during 1969 and 1987 [10], [11].

Even mass-mortality experts struggle to parse whether we're witnessing a genuine epidemic (more properly, an epizootic) of these events.

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is an economically devastating epizootic of porcine species.

Understanding variation of the immune response in raccoon is necessary as there is an ongoing epizootic of the raccoon variant of rabies in North America.

With the emergence of an epizootic of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus among poultry in Southeast Asia in December 2003, Thailand's first patients with influenza A(H5N1) virus infection (hereafter referred to as H5N1 cases) were identified in January 2004 [1].

We concluded that an epizootic of badger rabies affected a limited area of Coteau County from 2002 through 2004.