Poultry producers should strengthen biosecurity practices to prevent the introduction of the disease to their flocks. Biosecurity is also important to protect backyard and hobby flocks. Do not hire employees who own pet birds. Keep dead birds in a refrigerator and ship them on wet ice to a diagnostic laboratory for virus isolation. Usually symptoms are confined to painful conjunctivitis lasting a few days, but fever and influenza-like symptoms for up to 3 weeks may follow.
Most infections are in laboratory personnel.
Newcastle disease is treated symptomatically. There is no specific treatment for the viral disease.