Producers Should Make Community-Wide Effort To Vaccinate Against Pseudorabies
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that, the virus can be spread countywidc vaccination program cooperate in this,” he said, “You or three years ago. “if
somebody would have asked me
about (pseudorabies), I would
have said, it’s a political disease,
just live with it” said Dave Heck
el. Farm Crest Feeds. But Heckel
said the success that his company’s
grower-finishing herds have had
with the gene-deleted vaccine has
proven that the problem can be
cleaned up.
Heckel spoke on a producer
panel with Ray Martin, a hog pro
ducer from Voganville.
Both herd managers spoke
about their problems after testing
pseudorabies virus (PRV)-positive
in the past. Martin discovered that,
after testing his herd in 1987, he
was informed that 96 out of 100
hogs were positive. He began
using vaccine which had an
immediate and dramatic effect on
reducing the virus. By October 20
this year, he said, out of 60 animals
tested, only one was positive
and that he blames on ear tag con-
PENNSYLVANIA PSEUDORABIES VACCINATION PROJECT
(Name)
Vaccination Project By agreeing to participate, I accept the conditions below:
1. Vaccinate my all my feeder pigs against pseudorabies for a period of 6
months according to the schedule prescribed by my veterinarian.
2. Apply identifying ear tags to 20% of my pigs for a period of 6 months.
3. On the recording sheets provided, record the ear tag count color, and
removal date as tagged pigs are removed from the premises.
I understand that in return for accepting the above conditions, I will be provided with
the following:
1. Half of the needed doses of pseudorabies vaccine at no cost.
2. All of the needed ear tags.
3. A summary of my pigs’ growth performance.
Signed:
Please return this form to:
Dr. Paul M. Pitcher
USDA-APHIS, VS
2301 N. Cameron St. Room 412
Harrisburg, PA 17110
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fusion with a sow that was injected
with an old vaccine.
Martin injects the pigs four
times per year, at about 75 cents a
dose, for a total of $3 per sow.
Heckel manages three herds in
the Lidtz-Manheim area of the
county. Farm Crest Feeds operates
small contract operations in an
area that wasa “hot location” for
PRV spread. In 1990, a 700-sow
unit tested positive for pseudora
bies and was placed under quaran
tine. In the years following, they
depopulated twice, but the
“finisher flow” operation didn’t
stop the disease.
But Farm Crest decided to
“repopulate” rather than depopu
late. and cleaned off the finishing
floor and began vaccinating all
pigs right off the truck. A recent
test of 40 hogs showed only two or
three positive for the virus,
because of stringent biosecurity
and use of a vaccine that proved
“without a doubt” to stop the
spread.
(Turn to Pogo A 36)
Producers can
sign up for cost
share money to
eradicate pseudora
bies, according to
Dr. Paul Pitcher,
APHIS veterinarian,
far right. Those
speaking at the
Tuesday night meet
ing Included, from
left, Abe Fisher,
president of the Pen
nsylvania Pork Pro
ducers Council; Dr.
Bill Sischo, Penn
State veterinarian;
Dr. Amy Nesselrodt,
APHIS veterinarian;
and Pitcher.
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