Spread Of Pseudo Rabies
(ContlniMd from Pago A 1)
will be ideal for the rapid spread of
the disease.
‘To coordinate clean-up We must
know if the virus is moving to sur
rounding swine populations, " said
Trayer,
PRY Is Contagious
PRY is not confined to the swine
industry. It can be spread to other
ruminant animals which includes
dairy cows, beef cattle, sheep and
pets. These animals will die in two
or three days after being exposed
to the virus, according to Trayer.
Although research is being con
ducted on the ways it is spread, the
hog is still the best transmitter of
the disease. Exposure can be from
nose to nose contact with pigs or
virus particles can be transmitted
wherever pigs are. Also, manure
from the pigs if the same spreader
is used to clean out all pens, the
manure from the pig pens can
spread the disease.
Ruminant animals get a mad
itch and develop hot spots that may
have the hair rubbed off. Any type
of dumb behavior is characteristic
of the disease or the animal is dead.
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Lititz, PA
717-626-4705
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If the diseased animal is caught
early the meat can still be marketed
with absolutely no ill effects to the
consumer, according to Trayer.
“The swine industry may be
willing to live with their losses, but
I’m not so sure the other animal
industries it may affect, will be
willing to do that,” said Dr. Trayer.
“There is growing concern with
allied industries. In Lancaster
County dairy production ranks
fourth in the nation. And it wilt
affect the sheep, goat and pet
population. We have already had
to kill steers. All other animals are
end hosts. If they get it, they cannot
spread it to other animals. Horses
and humans are not susceptible to
this Herpes virus, explained
Trayer.”
Pseudo rabies is a virile infec
tion of the Herpes family and it is
not new. It was first identified in
Pennsylvania history in 1979 in
East Earl, south of Hershey. How
ever, it is a lot older than that It has
been fought by hog producers in
Minnesota, Indiana and Illinois for
13-14 years.
MARSHALL
MACHINERY INC.
Honesdale, PA
717-729-7117
LEHIGH AG PEOP k!I^ LES & STANLEY’S FARM
EQUIPMENT SERVICE SERVICE
Allentown. PA • oak PA Klmgerstown. PA iiubERGFRS OF
215-398-2553 717-463-2735 717-648-2081 UMBcnetnb Or
FONTANA
-Lebanon, PA
717-867-5161
A.L. HERR & BROS. NEUHAUS’ES INC. NICHOLS FARM EQUIP.
Quarryville, PA 'Glen Rock, PA Bloomsburg, PA
717-786-3521 717-428-1954 717-784-7731
GEORGE N. GROSS, INC.
Dover, PA
717-292-1673
Proposed Eradication Program
Recommendations from the
Swine Advisory Committee are
waiting approval from the Secret
ary of Agriculture and the Bureau
of Animal Industry and according
to John Henkel, swine producer
and chairman of the Swine Advis
ory Committee, the bureau is “gen
erally in agreement with our
recommendations’*.
“I can’t give the fine details, yet,
because they have not been work
ed out. However, we will have sew*
eral public meetings around the
beginning of the new year to hear
what producers and everyone in
the industry thinks,” explained
Henkel.
“I think we’ll see some relaxa
tion of clean-up control plans. We
have been strongly pushing to get
away from depopulation. Our
proposals may take longer than
previous eradication plans, but it
will not be as financially expen
sive,” said Henkel. “In the process
are some changes in the use of the
vaccine for pseudo rabies, also.”
The Swine Advisory Commitee
will meet with the Bureau of Ani-
MILLER SALES
& SERVICE INC.
Stewartstown, PA
717-993-2732
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oacambar 5, 1987437
mal Industry on Tuesday. Decem
ber IS, to continue work on the
recommendations.
Presently there is a degree of
national committment from the
National Poric Council for PRV
eradication that was not there as
recently as a year ago, according to
Hutchinson. Hutchinson believes
that it will take some persuasion to
convince swine producers to fol
low an eradication program.
Hutchinson feels with new
methods of testing the current
recommendations will be less
inconvenient, less time
consuming and less expensive to
Pseudo Rabies Story Continued Next Week
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SUPPLY INC.
Dover, PA
717-292-4443
TRACTOR
PARTS CO.
Bloomsburg, PA
717-764-0250
producers.
“Recent information shows us
that we can be 95 percent certain if
a herd has the PRV by testing only
25 to 30 percent of the herd. This is
a great advantage to previous test
ing methods, litis means the pro
ducer will not have to test all the
animals, it will not be as time con
suming, it will not be as costly to
the producer and we can identify
all the herds which have the dis
ease in a much shorter time. This
means that eradicating the disease
will also take less time,” said Dr.
Hutchinson.
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