A Description of a Highly Fatal Virus Disease of Poultry New to East Africa

Abstract

In the Annual Report of the Director of Agriculture of Kenya for 1935 brief reference to an outbreak of a disease of fowls, clinically and pathologically resembling Newcastle disease, was made. The disease was diagnosed in November of that year in birds forwarded to Kabete from Mombasa. The European owner of the fowls reported that in the preceding twelve months there had been an extensive outbreak of the disease on Mombasa Island, and that very large numbers of birds had died.