Serosurvey for Assessment of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus Antibodies Status in Sheep and Goats in the Rural System of Odisha State, India

Abstract

P este des petits ruminants (PPR) is a contagious, economically important, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) notifiable, morbillivirus (small ruminant morbillivirus-SRMV) infecting disease of sheep and goats and other related wildlife small ruminants species. The disease causes the highest death among various infectious diseases that limit the optimum productivity of sheep and goats in the world. Most of the sheep and goats are reared by poor sections of rural communities for nutrition, livelihood, and financial needs