Undiagnosed -- Morocco
A high-mortality event in goats should include evaluation for contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) due to _Mycoplasma capricolum_ subsp. _capripneumoniae_. Seroprevalence studies indicate CCPP presence in West Africa (though no sites in Morocco were evaluated). Given the OIE regulation of CCPP it is an important rule out.
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Communicated by
May Meghan
University of New England
Portland, ME, USA
[CCPP is a severe disease of goats occurring in many countries in Africa and Asia;
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8227060&promed&0
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