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Encourage Disease: ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., "to conduct, assist, and encourage disease investigations in the sciences and arts of hygiene, medicine and surgery, and allied subjects, in the nature and causes of disease and the methods of its prevention and treatment, and to make knowledge relat-bg to these various subjects available for the protection of the health of the public and the mproved treatment of disease and injury."
Mycoplasmosis is a respiratory disease caused y the bacteria Mycoplasma gallisepticum. It is Iso known as air sac disease or chronic respira-jry disease. Those affected with the disease may how nasal discharge, watery eyes, and respira-)ry difficulty. This disease is often associated /ith other respiratory diseases. It is transmitted hiefly from infected hens to their chicks through le eggs. The disease can also be transmitted by ontact with infected individuals, but it spreads ery slowly in this manner. The disease can best e controlled by maintaining breeding flocks free f the disease by strict measures of isolation and mitation. Chicks hatched from such flocks can egin life free of the disease.
Marek's disease is primarily a disease of young chickens from 2 to 5 months of age. It is also known as jowl paralysis and neural lym-phomatosis. Nerve-tissue rumors that cause paralysis of both legs and wings are the most common form of this disease, but the tumors may also affect the viscera, eyes, and gonads. The disease is probably caused by a virus. |
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