1988 Volume 41 Issue 11 Pages 822-824
A disease characterized by nervous symptoms such as blindness, and circling and running movements occurred in calves during a period from February, 1985 to February, 1986 on a farm in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Five dead calves were examined. Histopathologically, intranuclear inclusion bodies characteristic of lead poisoning were found in the tubular epithelial cells of the kidney. An excessive amount of lead was detected in the blood, kidney and liver by the biochemicalexaminations. As the result, the cases were diagnosed as lead poisoning.
