PED challenges have been exacerbated by cold temperatures this winter.

PED making for a long winter

A fall-winter outbreak has brought a different twist and new frustrations to dealing with PED

Winter has given the hog sector a different challenge in its fight with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). Jenelle Hamblin, manager of swine health programs with the Manitoba Pork Council (MPC), said the outbreak is trending similarly to 2017 and 2019, both record-breaking years, albeit with a three-week lag in case counts. Now 12 weeks into

PED is often fatal to piglets. It was first detected in the province in 2014.

PED trajectory mirroring previous big outbreaks

The majority of the 21 cases remain in Southeastern Manitoba

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) cases this year are thus far on a similar trajectory to peak case years of 2017 and 2019 the Manitoba Pork Council (MPC) said in a townhall meeting Dec. 7. “Not to say that it will continue in 2019 and 2017 trajectories, however what we’re seeing now is not really what


Researcher Ryan Brook says the potential for interaction between wild and tame pigs exists.

The wild card on PED for Manitoba’s pork sector

The last thing the pork sector needs is possible contact between PED risk areas and wild pigs

[UPDATED: Dec. 8, 2021] Experts worry that Manitoba’s wild pig population and domestic hog production are on a collision course, something that can only be a bad thing when it comes to disease. Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, has spent the last 12 years trying to track Canada’s wild pig population

PED can spread quickly throughout an operation once it breaches a barn’s biosecurity.

PED hits ‘outbreak’ territory

While cases remain low, a wide geographic spread and lack of answers on the investigation front have taken PED concern up a level

[UPDATED: Nov. 23, 2021] Manitoba is now looking at another outbreak year on PED. As of Nov. 19, the province had reported 11 cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea. Cases have been creeping upward since late October, including two nursery barns and one farrow to finish operation. While older animals often recover from illness, the viral

“At this time, no link has been established between the two cases.” – Manitoba Pork Council.

Second case of PED confirmed

Manitoba’s immaculate 2021 record is a thing of the past with its second case

The pork industry has confirmed the year’s second case of PED (porcine epidemic diarrhea) in a finisher barn in southeast Manitoba. The case was confirmed Oct. 29. The Manitoba Pork Council (MPC) said both the year’s first case — detected in a sow barn near Blumenort Oct. 25 — and the more recent case are


The Manitoba Pork Council has confirmed the first case of PED in 2021 was discovered in a sow barn in southeastern Manitoba.

First PED case of 2021 confirmed

A year without new PED cases is off the board, with the year’s first case reported in late October

Manitoba’s streak without new PED cases has come to an end. The first case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in 2021 was confirmed Oct. 25 in a sow barn near Blumenort in southeastern Manitoba, attendees of an eastern district meeting of the Manitoba Pork Council heard on Tuesday. Pork council chair Rick Préjet said trace-back

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Canada’s active PED case count dwindling

Affected Manitoba farms now all presumptive-negative

The number of active outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) on hog farms in Canada has shrunk to a few in Eastern Canada, with affected sites elsewhere now believed negative for the disease. Manitoba Pork announced Wednesday that the last of the premises to report a PED outbreak in that province in 2020 has now

A myriad of factors have likely contributed to keeping infection numbers down so far this year.

Why are Manitoba’s PED numbers so low?

Spring weather, residual immunity, biosecurity awareness and efforts to avoid COVID-19 may have all played into keeping Manitoba’s porcine epidemic diarrhea numbers down

It’s been a good year so far for PED in Manitoba’s hog barns. The province has had only two cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) this year; one in the northeast and one in southeast Manitoba, both in nursery barns confirmed June 10. This is in comparison to 60 cases by July 22 last year,


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‘Weak positive’ PED turns up in Alberta sample

A “weak positive” finding of the porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus from ongoing sampling in Alberta offers a warning that the hog disease may not have yet left the province alone. The chief provincial veterinarian’s office (OCPV) on Monday reported that the agriculture department’s lab in Edmonton on Jan. 22 found a weak PED positive

Manitoba hog producers outside the core PEDv area need to reconsider their biosecurity measures to keep the disease at bay.

No rolling the dice on PED says Manitoba Pork Council

PEDv has broken into both central and northeastern Manitoba, and barns in newly impacted areas might not be ready for the threat

Barns dodging PED might owe that to luck rather than robust bio­security. Andrew Dickson, the Manitoba Pork Council’s general manager, warns that some barns outside southeast Manitoba will need to heighten their guard if they hope to repel a serious risk of the disease. “We’ve got odd stories of people saying, ‘Well I’ve never got