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Editor’s Take: Coming together
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Editor’s Take: Coming together

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It’s been an interesting few years. Since March of 2020, it seems in some ways like decades have passed. Perhaps that’s the way it goes when you’re forced to spend too much time alone at home, in your own company. But every now and then a milestone passes, and I realize the whole experience of
PEDv spread like wildfire in the U.S., but Canada successfully limited its spread.
Hogs, Livestock

Standing tall: How Canada’s pork sector survived the attack of a killer virus

PEDv decimated the U.S. hog herd, but Canada showed how to do biosecurity right

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When it comes to finding expert advice on biosecurity, cattle producers might want to sit down with their local hog farmer. The country’s outstanding record on controlling the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has a host of lessons for the cattle sector, says a swine veterinarian who was deeply involved in Alberta’s battle against PEDv. Start
pigs in a nursery
Hogs

PEDv is now a ‘new normal’ for hog producers

Swine seminar participants told that despite its virulence, the disease can be managed

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For Dr. Sue Burlatschenko, the most striking thing about porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in swine is the eerie silence when you enter infected nursery barns, because the baby pigs are either sick or dead and the sows are too ill to rise. “You walk into a barn at feeding time and you won’t hear a
Hogs, Livestock

U.S. weekly PEDv reports increase

The outbreak is increasing costs and reducing production

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Confirmed cases of a deadly pig virus spreading across the U.S. Hog Belt jumped by 215 to its highest weekly increase since it was discovered in the country in April 2013, according to USDA’s National Animal Health Laboratory Network. NAHLN announced the rise in cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) on Jan. 28. Each
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New Taiwan bird flu shows animal virus risk to humans

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A woman in Taiwan has become the first person in the world with a confirmed case of a new strain of bird flu, adding to a growing body of evidence of the potential threat from animal viruses that mutate to be able to infect people. Scientists from Taiwan said the infection — with a bird
PED is a virus spread by fecal matter, and when a swine herd is infected, 70 to 100 per cent of newborn piglets typically die. FILE PHOTO
Hogs, Livestock

Deadly new hog disease has officials on high alert

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Deadly new hog disease has officials on high alert Keeping an emerging and devastating swine disease out of Manitoba will require a team effort, says the Manitoba Pork Council’s point man on the issue. That means truckers, gathering yards, and farmers need to work together to keep Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) out of the province,
International news, Livestock, News

China readies to fight new bird flu

Reuters / Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds at a poultry market in Shanghai April 5 as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off in airline shares in Europe and Hong Kong. The local government in Shanghai said the Huhuai market for
Hogs, Livestock, News

Ontario man contracts H1N1 variant after contact with pigs

Reuters – An Ontario man has been infected with an H1N1 variant influenza virus after having had close contact with pigs. “I would like to reassure Ontarians that this variant influenza virus rarely spreads from animals to humans,” said Arlene King, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health. “Subsequent human-to-human transmission is also rare. I would
Hogs, Livestock

New Animal Diseases Emerge

Agrowing number of livestock, such as cows and pigs, are fuelling new animal epidemics worldwide and posing more severe problems in developing countries as it threatens their food security, according to a report released Feb. 11. Epidemics in recent years, such as SARS and the H1N1 swine flu, are estimated to have caused billions of

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