Most of us heard about bird flu, a very common infectious disease in birds especially in chicken but turtle flu is entirely new and different word and it will definitely divert your attention towards poor turtles. Turtle flu is a respiratory infection among turtles so if you have one pet turtle, you should be careful about the disease as the coming weather changes will surely welcome any kind of flu in any species.
This is a kind of respiratory tract infection often called as RTI and it is usually observed in the turtle that used to live in exposed cold air. Its treatment is very easy and first thing to do is to keep your turtle in warm condition.
This respiratory infection has some common symptoms such as Contrived and stern breathing, the liquid that gathers in the lungs as a result septic turtles find it hard to breathe. This poisonous fluid in the lungs also creates problems for aquatic turtles to swim appropriately because their resistance and toughness is affected by this fluid. With Loud Puffing Sound in Radical Cases. In this Condition, The Mouth remains open and turtle experience runny noses like humans. A kind of liquid or jelly type solution uses to leak from mouth and when turtle comes on dry land , it start sneezing and coughing badly.
These symptoms of respiratory tract infections are very typical and distinctive in turtles these symptoms are usually not found in any other reptile disease. For treatment turtle are kept under warm conditions and in normal to high temperature.Vitamin A is injected to infected turtle with the help of veterinary.
So keep your turtle away from cold air and weather.
Turtle Flu
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