Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part F (2025)

The present study describes a detailed investigation of the sheeppox outbreak in a migratory flock of Mouli sheep breed in the Vijayapura district of Karnataka. The clinical symptoms during the outbreak investigation recorded were fever, nasal discharge and generalized typical pox lesions on the entire body in clinically ailing sheep. The post-mortem examination revealed typical gunshot wounds on the lungs and small white spots on the liver and intestine. The clinical and postmortem samples include scabs, nasal swabs, blood, and the lung and liver collected were subjected to Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for confirming the Capripox virus. Later in, the same set of samples were subjected to sheeppox species-specific PCR and was confirmed as sheeppox virus. The migratory flocks are subjected to lot of stress and regular vaccination is required to minimize the sheeppox outbreaks.