AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17,1980
Pseudorabies
(Continued from Page Al)
Field investigators are
continuing the time
consuming, painstaking
task of visiting and
revisiting farms to try to
trace the source of the
disease, Dr. Cable ex
plained.
In farm visits, questioning
is projected in both swine
marketing directions, in
cluding farms from which
swine were purchased, as
well as places to which pigs
have been sold.
The job of tracing
marketing activities can
become quite widespread,
according to Dr. Cable.
For example, one of the
early infected farms had
purchased 16 different lots of
pigs since the latter part of
1979. These pigs had come
from approximately 100
different farms and not all of
them were m Pennsylvania.
“This illustrates the
magnitude of what is in
volved in trying to trace the
disease,” Dr. Cable said.
In addition to the
geographical spread of the
investigation, tracing efforts
move back through swine
generations.
It was found recently that
two of the latest herds in
which pseodorabies bad
been confirmed bad sold pigs
to a breeder who, in turn,
had sold stock to one of the
originally infected farms.
“In a situation like this, we
try to find a cross-link that
may narrow down the source
of the disease,” Dr. Cable
explained.
“If something shows up
positive from lab tests, we
follow through with more
tracing. If results are
negative, then we must try
and move in a new direc
tion.”
There have been no ad
ditional acute symptoms of
the disease resulting in the
death of pigs or other
animals since the original
outbreak of pseudorabies in
southeastern Pennsylvania
earlier this year.
Dr. Cable said swine
producers should continue to
follow management prac
tices designed to help avoid
pseudorabies infection.
Only test negative
breeding animals from
pseudorabies free herds
should be purchased.
All breeding animals
added to the herd should be
isolated for 30 days and then
retested.
All show and exhibit
animals returned to the herd
should be isolated and
retested like new herd ad
ditions.
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