Poultry disease
Poultry diseases are diseases that afflict poultry. Major types of poultry include the chicken, turkey, duck, goose and ostrich.
The eradication of poultry disease is very important to the poultry industry.Viral diseases
- Chicken anaemia virus
- Infectious bursal disease also known as IBD or Gumboro disease
- Lymphoid leukosis caused by avian sarcoma leukosis virus
- Marek's disease
- Newcastle disease
- Viral arthritis
- Avian influenza
- Fowl pox
- Epidemic tremor
- Laryngotracheitis
Parasitic diseases
- Scaly leg, caused by the mite Knemidocoptes mutans
- Infestations:
- *Dermanyssus gallinae, the red poultry mite
- *Echidnophaga gallinacea, the stickfast flea
- Worms in chickens
- Colibacillosis in poultry
- Infectious coryza in chickens
- Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale
- Pullorum disease
- Riemerella anatipestifer
- Salmonellosis in poultry
- Staphylococcal infection in poultry
- Streptococcal infection in poultry
- Omphalitis in chicks
- Mycoplasmosis
- Fowl cholera
- Campylobacteriosis
- Pseudomonas
- Ornithobacteriosis
Protozoal diseases
- Histomoniasis, caused by Histomonas meleagridis
- Coccidiosis
Fungal diseases
- Ergotism
- Aspergillosis
- Sour crop
- Ringworm
