| outbreak of newcastle disease due to pigeon paramyxovirus type 1 in grey partridges (perdix perdix) in scotland in october 2006. | in october 2006, following an initially non-statutory disease investigation affecting 12-week-old grey partridges (perdix perdix), an outbreak of newcastle disease due to infection with the avian paramyxovirus type 1 virus responsible for the current panzootic in pigeons (ppmv-1) was confirmed in scotland. two pens of partridges were affected by signs including loss of condition, diarrhoea, progressive neurological signs and mortality totalling approximately 24 per cent, and laboratory evidence ... | 2009 | 19880861 |