The Role of Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus in "Garden Variety Shipping Fever"

Abstract

The title really should be followed by a question mark for two reasons:

(1) we really do not fully understand BRSV's role as a primary etiological agent; and

(2) we can only thus theorize its role in the BRD complex we call shipping fever.

Now here's the bait for you to bear with me for this rather involved presentation:
■ I think we can answer BRSV's role in both atypical type and possibly in bronchiopneumonic animals.
■ I think we can shed some significant insight into "early mild" and "late severe" BRSV and all types of "atypical" pneumonias, and further those animals we call honkers, glottal edema, etc.,
■ I think we can initiate a different and more meaningful thought process toward our bovine patients, their defense mechanisms, challenge, and disease processes.

And we can do this easily and readily, in relation to BRSV, because they're all one and the same!