Workshop: UVAS discusses poultry infections

LAHORE: University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Vice Chancellor Talat Naseer Pasha said on Monday that mycoplasma transmission is causing the Newcastle Disease and avian influenza in commercial poultry flocks. Pasha was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of a workshop on Current approaches for the Diagnosis and Control of Avian Mycoplasmas organised by the University Diagnostic Laboratory (UDL) and the Department of Microbiology. Pasha said farmers were concerned over Mycoplasma and Salmonella and the experts should help them overcome the problem.  Professor Mazhar I Khan, who teaches at the University of Connecticut, said the mycoplasma is a typical bacterium, transferred from parents to offspring that decreases their immunity to disease.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 4^th, 2012.