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Six buffer zones have been identified since the PEDv outbreak began in early May.
Hogs, Local news

Manitoba Pork turns to producer-based program to stem PEDv outbreak

Manitoba Pork is hanging its hopes for combating PEDv on a newly launched disease response program

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Manitoba’s PEDv outbreak is still in full force, but the industry hopes a new initiative to connect producers will help combat the spread. This has already become the worst year on record for the virus with over four times as many cases reported as in the previous three years combined. The Manitoba Coordinated Disease Response
Pork sector calls for washing station changes
Hogs, News

Pork sector calls for washing station changes

Manitoba Pork argues a return to domestic wash stations will allow greater control over variables that might contribute to the spread of PEDv

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Manitoba Pork wants to see the return of Canadian-based wash stations for hog transport trailers coming back from the United States. If implemented, it would be an echo of a 2014 pilot project, one of several emergency measures by the pork sector following the first Canadian outbreaks. News of the virus’s spread to Canada in
Hogs, Local news

PEDv risk factors identified as investigation continues

The PEDv investigation has identified potential vectors for the virus to slip into barns

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Manitoba’s Chief Veterinarian Officer continues to investigate the ongoing PEDv infection in southeastern Manitoba, an outbreak that has broken records as the worst on record. Both the Chief Veterinarian Officer and Manitoba Pork Council have noted biosecurity gaps in the region and have asked producers to tighten up biosecurity. As the investigation into the source
A total of 18 cases makes this the worst year ever for PED in Manitoba.
Hogs, Local news

Manitoba hits record numbers of PED virus

Three more were cases confirmed in the 
fourth week of May

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Eight cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) have been confirmed in Manitoba in the last month, making this the worst year on record for the virus. Last year, five cases of the disease were reported. Two of the eight cases were found 20 kilometres away from the initial infection area, whereas the initial cases were
PEDv most often is fatal in very young piglets.
Hogs, Livestock, Local news

Province confirms the 10th case of PEDv

Ten cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea have been confirmed in Manitoba since May 26

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The number of confirmed cases of on-farm porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in Manitoba has officially entered the double digits and more are expected to arise over the next few months. “We are entering the season now where it is getting cooler and damper and those are the ideal conditions for this disease to spread.
(Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock

Field testing underway on Canadian PED vaccine

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Field testing is underway and a corporate partner on board for development of a made-in-Saskatchewan vaccine to protect pigs against porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). The University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) said Monday its prototype vaccine, first announced last year, has moved into field testing in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Manitoba
Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay speaks to reporters at the Maple Leaf plant in Winnipeg.
Livestock, News

Swine trucks will continue to be washed in the U.S.

PEDv concerns continue as agriculture minister refuses to reinstate emergency truck-washing protocol

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Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay says he will rely on the expertise of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency when it comes to truck-washing regulations. Speaking to reporters following a recent announcement in Winnipeg, the minister said he recognizes that pork producers and processors want to wash livestock trailers in Canada and not the United States,
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Keeping PEDv out

Plus, restoring prison farms to be studied

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Is it a coincidence that three Manitoba hog operations have experienced outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) within weeks after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reinstated protocols for washing trucks returning from the U.S.? We think not. During the height of the PEDv outbreak in the U.S. two years ago, the CFIA suspended a
Manitoba pork producers are facing new PEDv cases and the risk the outbreak could be found on more hog operations as the industry and government continue addressing the problem in earnest.
Hogs, Local news

Three new PEDv cases confirmed on Manitoba farms

Despite industry concerns, a program allowing hog trucks and trailers
 to be disinfected in Canada rather than the U.S. has come to an end

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The news of new PEDv cases is extremely unwelcome, but not entirely unexpected. After nearly 16 months of being in the clear, three new cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea have been confirmed in Manitoba. “We’re very disappointed this has happened,” said Andrew Dickson, general manager of the Manitoba Pork Council. “We’ve sent a note out

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