A24—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 9,1982
Pseudorabies breaks out in
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG - The highly
contagious pseudorabies disease
that has been plaguing hog
producers in Lancaster and
surrounding counties for almost
two years has crept into a Franklin
County farrow-to-finish hog
operation.
According to Dr. John Cable of
the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal
Industries, this is the first case of
pseudorabies in Franklin County.
The disease previously had
seemed confined to the Ephrata
area of County, with
only a few isolated cases occurring
in Berks, Lebanon, Chester and
Schuylkill counties. There are
presently 25 herds under
quarantine 23 are in the Ephrata
core area with 1 in Berks and 1 in
counties.
A local veterinarian alerted BAI
on Dec. 27 when he suspected PRV
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in a group of 15 steers on the tai i n
Several of the steers wore
exhibiting the symptoms of ‘mud
itch’ rubbing their heads and
scratching severely. -
PRV, which is passed from
swine to cattle through nose-to
nose or nose-to-rectum contact,
affects the steer’s central nervous
system and results in death within
4 or 5 days. Although it is not a
‘dead-end’ disease in swine, it
causes severe losses in pig num
bers due to a high incidence of
mortality. It is suspected that the
Franklin steers were infected with
the virus through contact with the
sows housed next to them with onlv
a fence separating them.
After the death of two of the
steers during the first week, the
Franklin farmer submitted two
complete carcasses to the BAI
Summerdale laboratory for
diagnostic work. The'veterinarians
and staff isolated the PRV-causing
herpes virus in a brain culture.
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blond test- die Franklin far
mer's pigs. All tests came back
‘positive’ for PRV.
Since the disease broke out in the
herd, 14 of the 15 steers died, and
the farmer is suffering severe
losses in his pig crop, reports
Cable. Out of a total of 24 litters, 22
have been lost.
The source of the PRV in
Franklin County is being in
vestigated at the present time
through the efforts of Dr. Robert
Probasco, Region 6 veterinarian.
“At the present time there are no
leads on how the disease was in
troduced.” comments Cable.
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