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African horse sickness and Bluetongue disease

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Difference between African horse sickness and Bluetongue disease

African horse sickness vs. Bluetongue disease

African horse sickness (AHS) is a highly infectious and deadly disease. Bluetongue disease is a non-contagious, insect-borne, viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries, and antelope.

Similarities between African horse sickness and Bluetongue disease

African horse sickness and Bluetongue disease have 8 things in common (in Unionpedia): Culicoides, Culicoides imicola, Incubation period, Orbivirus, Reoviridae, Vaccine, Vector (epidemiology), Virus.

Culicoides

Culicoides is a genus of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.

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Culicoides imicola

Culicoides imicola is a species of biting midges which transmits the bluetongue virus and the African horse sickness virus.

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Incubation period

Incubation period is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical, or radiation, and when symptoms and signs are first apparent.

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Orbivirus

The genus Orbivirus is a member of the Reoviridae family, in the subfamily Sedoreovirinae.

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Reoviridae

Reoviridae is a family of viruses.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease.

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Vector (epidemiology)

In epidemiology, a disease vector is any agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism; most agents regarded as vectors are organisms, such as intermediate parasites or microbes, but it could be an inanimate medium of infection such as dust particles.

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Virus

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms.

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African horse sickness and Bluetongue disease Comparison

African horse sickness has 50 relations, while Bluetongue disease has 60. As they have in common 8, the Jaccard index is 7.27% = 8 / (50 + 60).

References

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