PN-3656 



A supervisory data center is used to control and monitor equipment at Plum Island. 



support services such as electrical power, 

 heating, water, sewage decontamination and 

 processing plus marine and automotive 

 transportation. 



DISEASES STUDIED 



The contagious foreign animal diseases 

 studied and diagnosed in the Plum Island Center 

 and the principal domestic animals they infect 

 include— 



• Foot-and-mouth disease— cattle, hogs, sheep, 

 goats. 



Rinderpest— cattle . 



Teschen disease— hogs. 



African swine fever— hogs. 



Fowl plague— poultry . 



African horsesickness— horses, mules, asses. 



Asiatic Newcastle disease— poultry. 



Lumpy skin disease— cattle. 



Ephemeral fever— cattle. 



• Duck virus enteritis— ducks. 



• Vesicular exanthema of swine— swine. 



• Louping ill— sheep. 



• Ovine and caprine pox— sheep, goats. 



• Nairobi sheep disease— sheep. 



• Rift valley fever— sheep, cattle, goats. 



• Bovine herpes mammillitis— cattle. 



• Exotic vesicular stomatitis— cattle, sheep, 

 goats, swine, horses. 



• Swine vesicular disease— swine. 



• Borna disease— horses. 



• Peste des petits ruminants— sheep, goats. 



• Equine encephalosis— horses. 



• Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia— 

 cattle. 



• Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia— 

 goats, sheep. 



• Contagious agalactia— sheep, goats. 



• East Coast fever— cattle. 



The diseases listed are caused by viruses 

 except for the last four. Contagious bovine and 



