PMID: 1181552Sep 1, 1975Paper

[Intoxication in cattle caused by a batch of sugar beet pulp (author's transl)].

Nordisk Veterinaermedicin
K NielsenT Moller

Abstract

During the period from Dec. 7th 1972 to Jan. 8th 1973 76 cattle deaths were reported in 20 herds on the island of Møon and the adjacent south-eastern area of Sealand. The disease was characterized by a sudden onset and a rapid and invariably fatal course. Initially, there was a loss of appetite, depression, excessive salivation and incoordination. These symptoms progressed to paralysis and, in some animals, trmor and convulsions. Death usually ensued less than 2 hours after the first observation of symptoms. Losses in the herds varied from 1 to 12 animals. In herds with multiple incidents the majority of deaths occurred in the 24-hour-period following observation of the first case. Pathology: Gross lesions were few and inconclusive. Histology revealed marked dilatation of cerebral and maningeal blood vessels (arterioles, venoles and capillaries), with perivascular edema and haemorrhage. Adjacent neurons and glia cells showed various degrees of degeneration, apparently secondary to the vascular lesion. In all affected herds sugar beet pulp from one particular sugar mill had been used during the period preceding the outbreak. The syndrome was reproduced by feeding sugar beet pulp from this batch to two heifers. The heifers showed...Continue Reading

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