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Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis

Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis

is a lentiviral infection of goats which may lead to chronic disease of the joints and on rare occasions encephalitis.

The symptoms of this disease are varied, mature goats can develop arthritis and find walking painful. The knee joints may be inflamed and swollen and the goats will slowly loose condition. In some cases they will not be able to stand. As to the present there is no cure for this disease. The goat herd should be regularly tested and any animal testing positive should be culled.

--Stjohnsuni (talk) 18:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)