Water buffalo is a bovine type. Its meat will taste like beef. Water buffalo are usually used as a beasts of burden, pulling and hauling, and are not eaten young when the meat is tender and mildly flavored. Next question, please.
Poliomyelitis (polio); Causative Agent: poliovirus (4). Transmission: The virus can be transmitted by two ways: fecal-oral route and contact transmission. The fecal-oral route is the most common pathway for infecting a host (7).
a) Agent : The causative agents is the polioviruses which have three serotypes 1,2 and 3. Most outbreaks of paralytic polio are due to tpye-1 virus. Polio virus can survive for long periods in the external environment. In a cold environment, it can live in water for 4 months and in faeces for 6 months. It is therefore well-adapted for the faecal-oral route of transmission.