Practice Name:

Control of Ephemeral Fever

Affected Animal	Cattle
Affected Animal (Scientific Name)	Bos Taurus
Affected Animal (Taxonomy)	Bovidae
Affected Animal (Vernacular)	Gai, Gau
Category	Veterinary Care
Disease	Ephemeral fever
Disease Attak Stage	At any stage virus may attacks the animal.
Disease Common Name	3 day sickness, 3 day stiff sickness
Disease Group
Disease Distribution

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Amaruben H Baurya
City / District	Bhavnagar
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, At- Lok Bharati Sanosara, Ta- Sinhor, Dist.-Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Address	Bhavnagar ,Gujarat
Languages Spoken	Gujarati
Vocation	Farmer
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364001

PAS_1	"Control of Bovine Ephermal fever"https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13567-015-0262-4
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain (5.1) , Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and hills region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Saurashtra, South Saurashtra (GJ-6,GJ-7)
Disease Symptoms / Clinical Signs	Sudden onset, Biphasic Fever , immidiate drop in milk production, depression, stiffness, lameness, nasal/ocular discharges, cessation of rumination, constipation and abortion
Disease Description	It is an arthropod transmitted disease of cattle and water buffalo that spans tropical and subtropical zones of Africa , Australia, the middle east and Asia.From the enzootic sites the disease extends intermittently into temparate zones, causing epizootics of variable severity. The disease has not been reported in North or South America or in Europe. Several closely related viruses can infect cattle, but do not cause disease.
Disease Control	Disease control by control of arthropods, mosquitos and culicoid midges.
Disease Prevention
Precautions
Procedure of Use	Rhabdo virus causes a fever that is known as valoby the locals. The cattle have typical symptoms like very high temperature for three days. The area around the nose (muzzle) of the animal becomes dry. It is usually moist in healthy ones. The muscles of the hind limbs and fore limbs become weak because of which the animal is not able to stand. The animal keeps on shifting its weight from one foot to another and constantly limps while walking. This ephemeral fever also affects the milk production of milch cattle. By fourth day the virus completes its incubation period and the fever subsides. Amaruben H Baurya from the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat has formulated a treatment to cure this fever. She makes the animals inhale the fumes of shisham or Rose-wood (Dalbergia sissoo)wood to make it comfortable. Besides this, Baruya crushes about 100 grams of garlic Allium sativum) pods and smears on the animals body, twice a day, for two days. This causes the ephemeral fever to subside faster.
Etiology Causative Agent	Caused by Bovine ephemeral fever virus of Genus Ephemerovirus of Family Rhabdoviridae of order Mononegavirales.
Global Context
Lesson Implication	Disease control by control of arthropods, mosquitos and culicoid midges.
Other Medications / Treatments	Vaccination, anti-inflammatry drugs
Limitations of Approaches
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0010000001136
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1325
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN