Re: CAE/What do you use for?????

[Guest guest]

Its the white blood cells, not red...and mycoplasma will come up showing the doe positive for CAE

Kari

.....milk and through red blood cells. CAE prevention uses pasturised milk for feeding the kids and this breaks the cycle of the disease. When a breeder is trying to establish their herd it is a very good idea to get blood tests and for the first few generation cook the milk. Afterwards when the disease status of the herd is known then you can switch to natural feeding methods and the animals will really do well on it. Humans can drink this milk but we can test HIV positive because of it. Apparently the virus is so similar the human test will pick it up. Mycoplasma, is another disease that you need to pasteurize milk for. I

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[Guest guest]

Hi,

No, its the white blood cells....heres an excerpt from Washington State...

....The CAE virus is intimately associated with white blood cells; therefore, any body secretions which contain white blood cells are potential sources of virus ...

....Caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) is a lentiviral infection of goats which may lead to chronic disease of the joints and on rare occasions encephalitis in goat kids less than six months of age. The CAE virus is intimately associated with white blood cells; therefore, any body secretions which contain white blood cells are potential sources of virus to other goats in the herd. Since not all goats that become infected with CAE virus progress to disease, it is important to test goats routinely for infection by means of a serology test which detects viral antibodies in the serum.

Kari~

Hello,Information from WADDL says red blood cells.

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Christie's Dairy Goats

Seymour, Mo

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