Newcastle Disease - Information from Wikipedia on this highly contagious bird disease caused by a virus, its symptoms, and research into a variant of the virus which has been shown to target cancer cells. Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) - Information on this contagious and fatal viral disease. Description of the virus, its transmission, symptoms and prevention. Newcastle Disease - Information on this avian disease, its causal agent, its transmission, diagnosis and prevention. Exotic Newcastle Disease - Information on this contagious and fatal viral disease of birds, the signs to recognize and how the disease spreads, provided by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of USDA. Newcastle Disease - NDV is an acute, rapidly-spreading virus disease that affects poultry and other birds. This article explains how it is transmitted, the symptoms, prevention and control. Newcastle Disease - Information on this disease especially the very contagious form, VND, its signs, how it is transmitted and what is being done to prevent its entry into Canada.