Pig virus, PEDv, confirmed on Ontario, Canada farm
In a follow-up to the investigation by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) concerning a suspected outbreak of the pig virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) last week, a farrow to finish farm in Middlesex County, Ontario has been the first in Canada to be confirmed infected by eoidemic virus.
Dr. Martin Misener, a veterinarian with Southwest Ontario Veterinary Services and the chair of the Ontario Swine Heath Advisory Board Science and Technology Committee said:
The good news is that this farm is now locked down.
It is a 500 sow farrow to finish facility located in a mild to moderate pig density area in south-western Ontario, In Middlesex County to be exact.
There will be no pig movement from that site until there is a whole lot more information understood and a plan to contain this particular viral exposure.
The main concern would be shedding pigs or cross contamination traffic with this farm so initial efforts are going to be focussed on the pigs that left the farm on the Tuesday.
I’m very hopeful that those animals that left the farm had not seen this virus yet and therefore are not shedding and therefore not infective but we need to identify that that’s the case or not the case and that’s the prime focus at this moment in time.
In addition, Misener noted that he was extremely optimistic the virus could be contained.
The latest numbers from the PEDv outbreak in the United States is as follows: 23 states reporting farms with PEDv and around 2,400 farms affected total in the country.
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