Does marek's causes blisters/pimples on comb?

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Fowl Pox is a viral infection related to herpes. The dry form does not normally kill birds and goes away by itself within several weeks. You can give supportive care, increasing protein in their diet cleaning any lesions with iodine and applying some Neosporin to prevent superimposed bacterial infections on the lesions.
This could be what the vet gave you the antibiotics for. Antibiotics will not cure a viral infection. The majority of birds recover fine from this without any problems and they are immune to that particular strain. There are though other strains. People who live in tropical areas where Fowl Pox is endemic can vaccinate their birds yearly for this. I do this with my birds.
The kind that is dangerous and could potentially kill your birds is the wet form which can cause lesions to grow inside their mouth’s. Unfortunately birds can get either forms from the same viral strain.
 
It is transmitted by mosquitoes. Birds can get it from each other if they are exposed to an open lesion. It is best to isolate your birds who have it. This will help prevent it from spreading to the rest of the flock.
 

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