Livestock poisoning by plants is one of the serious causes of economic loss to the livestock industry. Veterinarians and animal owners are frequently confronted with the task of determining whether or not a plant is responsible for poisoning of animals. Similarly the presence of plants other than grasses in a pasture is always a concern to livestock owners. Ingestion of many plants produces non-specific clinical signs that must be differentiated from other disease conditions. In addition, death due to toxic plant ingestion often does not result in characteristic post-mortem lesions....

PRRS has now become an endemic disease in the global swine production, except for several countries, including Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Australia claimed to be free of this disease. India was considered as free from the disease till 27-06-13, when the Government of India has reported the first outbreak of PRRS in pig population of Mizoram, to OIE. The north-eastern region of India, comprising of 8 States namely Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim consists 27.94% of the total pig population of India. Pig husbandry plays an important...