Seniosis
Seneciosis ( seneciosis , Schweinsberger disease or liver fever ) is an animal disease caused by poisoning with pyrrolizidine alkaloids . The poisoning damages the liver and can lead to death. Cattle , horses and grazing pigs are mainly affected . The trigger is usually the consumption of the common ragwort species in our part of the world .
Nowadays, seniosis occurs only rarely and especially in horses kept on pasture. From 1920 to 1960, on the other hand, in the German-speaking area, loss-making, enzootic poisoning became known again and again .