WASHINGTON, D.C. A cidence of pseudorabies in swine “On the average, nationwide
recently completed nationwide shows an 8.78-percent infection spread of pseudorabies is ob
survey by the U.S. Department of rate, compared with 8.39 percent viously leveling off,” said Bert W.
Agriculture measuring the in- found three years earlier. Hawkins, administrator of USDA’s
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spection Service. “This is a
positive development, since the
infection rate increased from 0.56
percent to 8.39 percent in the
1970’5, causing a real worry in the
swine industry.”
The survey is based on a sample
of swine slaughtered at federally
inspected plants from March 1983
through February 1964. It follows
similar USDA surveys done about
every three years since 1974,
Hawkins said.
The sampling procedure used in
the survey was designed to give
each pig brought to federally in
spected slaughter plants an equal
chance to be selected for testing.
The slaughter plants submitted
12,572 samples for testing at the
USDA National Veterinary Ser
vices Laboratories, Ames, lowa.
Survey results are affected by
seasonal differences in the sam
pling periods, the influence of
vaccination and other factors.
Vaccines for pseudorabies became
available in June 1977, and tests
can not differentiate between
infected and vaccinated animals.
“Still,” Hawkins said, “the trend
is clear. The increase is
pseudorabies noticed during the
1970’s has been leveled.
“We think the reduced spread of
pseudorabies has come about
because of a greater awareness on
the part of producers that this
disease is a problem to be
reckoned with,” Hawkins said.
“Producers now are more likely to
isolate and retest swine brought to
their farms. Mandatory state and
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interstate also have helped identify
animals carrying the infection.”
Because of increased concern
about pseudorabies as a livestock
disease problem, five states are
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in Illinois, lowa, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Pseudorabies, also known as
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is a virus disease of swine that is
highly fatal to newborn pigs. Swine
infected at an older age do not
usually die, but tend to become
carriers and may shed the virus
when they become stressed. The
disease can be transmitted to most
other warmblooded animals, but
not to humans.
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distribute evergreen and hard
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Gene Odato, District Forester and
Karl Brown of the Lebanon Soil
Conservation District. Ap
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