Preferred Label : Newcastle conjunctivitis;
ICD-11 definition : This is a contagious bird disease affecting many domestic and wild avian species;
it is transmissible to humans. First found in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
in 1926, then by Burnet in 1943 in Australia in connection with laboratory infection,
where the virus was isolated from an ocular discharge of a patient to show the specific
antibody titre in the patient's blood.;
ICD-11 synonym : avian pneumoencephalitis; Newcastle disease; Newcastle fever; pseudo-fowlpest;
Origin ID : 539699728;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
This is a contagious bird disease affecting many domestic and wild avian species;
it is transmissible to humans. First found in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
in 1926, then by Burnet in 1943 in Australia in connection with laboratory infection,
where the virus was isolated from an ocular discharge of a patient to show the specific
antibody titre in the patient's blood.
