PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed deaths, poultry – Philippines (02): (NC) comment

Undiagnosed — Philippines
Suggested to consider, for differential diagnosis, also swollen head syndrome (SHS). SHS affects predominantly males and causes, in difference with infectious coryza, sudden deaths.

Michael Meroz, DVM

[We are grateful to Dr Meroz for reminding of SHS, which seems as a plausible candidate within the diagnostic efforts of the cases described in fighting cocks (Cotabato City, Philippines). The report (http://promedmail.org/post/20200215.6991197) said that “the animals all died inside