Are eggs safe to eat?

[junebuggena]

Just checking because in your last post you called it a virus.

It's a technicality. Sure it's a bacteria, but its pathology is more akin to a virus. It behaves more like a virus, and it is a lot more detrimental than the average bacterial infection. One of the only bacterias that is life-long, and has serious, long-term impacts on a flock. It requires the sort of management that you would apply to a virus-infected flock, hence the use of the word virus in previous posts. It can not be treated like a simple bacteria infection.

 

[casportpony]

Just checking because in your last post you called it a virus.

It's a technicality. Sure it's a bacteria, but its pathology is more akin to a virus. It behaves more like a virus, and it is a lot more detrimental than the average bacterial infection. One of the only bacterias that is life-long, and has serious, long-term impacts on a flock. It requires the sort of management that you would apply to a virus-infected flock, hence the use of the word virus in previous posts. It can not be treated like a simple bacteria infection.

But it can be treated with many antibiotics (tylosin, enrofloxacin, tiamulin, and a few more), whereas a true virus cannot be treated wih antibiotics.

-Kathy

 

[junebuggena]

But it can be treated with many antibiotics (tylosin, enrofloxacin, tiamulin, and a few more), whereas a true virus cannot be treated wih antibiotics.

-Kathy

Antibiotics are ineffective and can not cure MG. Once a bird because infected, it is a carrier for life. That's not normal for a bacteria.

 

[casportpony]

But it can be treated with many antibiotics (tylosin, enrofloxacin, tiamulin, and a few more), whereas a true virus cannot be treated wih antibiotics.


-Kathy

Antibiotics are ineffective and can not cure MG. Once a bird because infected, it is a carrier for life. That's not normal for a bacteria.

It's true that once they contract mycoplasma that they remain carriers, but the respiratory symtoms *can* be treated wil the drugs I mentioned.

-Kathy