Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute, highly contagious and often fatal trans-boundary viral disease of economic importance primarily affecting goats, sheep, camels and antelopes; whereas cattle undergo sub-clinical infection. Clinical cases of PPR have been reported in arid and semi arid pastoral areas of northern Kenya since 2006. With the disease being relatively new in the country, this book provides description of PPR disease from the perspective of Turkana community in Turkana County, Kenya, an area where PPR first outbreaks were reported in 2006. Turkana community knowledge on...
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute, highly contagious and often fatal trans-boundary viral disease of economic importance primarily affectin...