Hendra virus facts and resources Hendra virus can produce life-threatening illness in horses and humans: to date about 80% of infected horses and 60% of infected people have died. Above: Oedematous lung from an HeV case (similar to the pathology caused by African...
African horse sickness in south-east Asia African horse sickness is exotic to Australia – but was diagnosed for the first time in southeast Asia in 2020. If it reaches our shores it has the potential to cause high mortality rates in horses as well as having...
Gross path challenge #5 Photo: Ayrial Foster, Berrimah DPIR NT BOVINE LUNG: The visceral pleural surface displays moderate, regionally extensive opacity most obvious over the dorsocaudal region. Diffusely, the interlobular pulmonary septae are obvious and expanded by...
Gross path challenge #4 Photo: Rick Last, DPIRD WA PLUCK FROM AN 8 MONTH OLD LAMB: Which died of rumen acidosis and frothy bloat due to over-engorgement on barley. The image demonstrates the bloat-line in the mucosa of the oesophagus. Compression on thoracic organs by...
Gross path challenge #3 Photo: The Joint Pathology Centre WSC 2015 SKELETAL MUSCLE: The cut surface of the muscle shows large multifocal to coalescing dark red to black areas that are dry. Occasional gas bubbles (emphysema) are evident in the interstitial connective...
