—lancastar Farming, Saturday, April 1,1978
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -
Four organizations were
honored recently for their
role in hog cholera
eradication by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
at the awards luncheon of
the American Pork
Congress, here.
Dr. Francis J. Mulhern,
administrator of USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS),
presented plaques to the
American Veterinary
Medical Association,
Livestock Conservation
Institute, National Pork
Producers Council and U.S.
Animal Health Association.
“These four groups were
instrumental in providing
leadership and guidance in
the successful campaign to
eradicate this costly swine
disease,” Mulhern said.
On Jan. 31, Secretary of
Agriculture Bob Bergland
declared the United States
free of hog cholera, the most
destructive and costly swine
disease ever to exist in this
country. This action of
ficially ended a 15-year
state-federal-industry cam
paign that began in late 1962,
following the passage of
enabling legislation the
previous year. The last case
of hog cholera occurred Aug.
1, 1976. in a swine herd near
Cape May, N.J.
Berks Co.
4-H 9 ers go to
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LEESPORT - Four Berks
County 4-H members will
join young adults from the
Commonwealth’s 67 counties
at State 4-H Capital Days in
Harrisburg on April 3 to 4.
The County delegates
selected to take part in the
statewide event are:
Darlene Dietrich, Hamburg
Rl; Helen L. Seidel, 258
Highland Avenue, Kutz
town; Larry Shrawder,
Kempton R 2; and Ronald
Sutliff, Mohrsville.
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Farm groups honored for
cholera eradication
“The 1961-78 hog cholera
eradication program ranks
as one of the most significant
achievements in animal
health history,” Mulhem
stated.
“Before the eradication
campaign, hog cholera cost
producers $5O million a year
in death losses and vac
cination expenses. Without a
program, those costs would
have doubled,” Mulhern
said. “But today, with hog
cholera eradicated, those
costs are nonexistent.
“Total state and federal
expenditures,” he said,
“were $l4O million through
fiscal 1977 versus estimated
costs to producers of $1.12
billion for that same period
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without an eradication
program.”
Mulhern noted that in
addition to the savings to hog
producers, eradication of
hog cholera will opep up
foreign markets for U.S.
pork. “We are projecting a
$lO million export market in
England in the year ahead -
mostly for pork kidneys,
livers and variety meats
which have a low demand in
this country.”
Mulhem also pointed out
that consumers also will
benefit from the eradication
of hog cholera because in
creased production and
processing costs
traditionally are passed
along to the consumer in the
form of higher prices. “Hogs
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affected by this disease in
one year before tbe program
began would have produced
enough meat to supply the
yearly pork needs of 1-
million Americans,” he said.
Key points in the
eradication campaign -were
elimination of vaccines in
1969, development of a “task
force” approach to disease
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declaration of a “national
emergency” in 1972 that
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and manpower.
The program consisted of
four phases to allow in
dividual states to progress
toward the eradication goal
at different rates of speed.
The-final phases involved
destruction of infected and
exposed swine herds with swine herds contaii
payment of indemnities to . about 800,000 i hogs i
help compensate producers destroyed because of
for their losses. From 1965 cholera at a cost of
through 1976, some 5,700 million.
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