Canada: Alberta reports 1st-ever outbreak of PEDv The Canadian province of Alberta has reported its first-ever outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus.
US study: Flies can spread PEDv A US study conducted earlier this year confirms that even a few flies have the ability to infect pigs with...
Many pig viruses can survive in feed transport Contaminated feed ingredients may represent a risk in the transport of pathogens, like PRRSv and PCV2, at local...
PEDv: Disinfectant inactivates in cold weather A team of American researchers have reported that different dilutions of disinfectant were effective in...
New PED wave hits 56 places in Manitoba – and counting Where Canada has escaped from too many outbreaks of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) since 2013, the...
US: Plea for national FMD vaccine bank If it were down to the United States National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), the US administration would have to...
PEDv finds its way into Canada again PED virus has come up once again in Manitoba, but according to Manitoba Pork’s general manager, Andrew Dickson,...
Oral and vaccine immunisation for PEDv compared US researchers compared the efficacy of two different ways of immunisation against Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea...
PEDv can survive in feed ingredients Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PEDv) can survive in a subset of feed ingredients. This was shown in recent trials...
Surviving SDCoV with feed additives Using certain kinds of feed additives may reduce Swine Delta Coronavirus (SDCoV) survival in complete feed...
PED becomes notifiable disease in England PED is to become a notifiable disease in England from Friday December 18, and pig-keepers and vets will be...
Scotland considers making PEDv notifiable The Scottish government has proposed to make the highly virulent porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDv) a...
PEDv likely came into the US with tote bags The usage of so-called ‘tote bags’ are most likely the cause of the introduction and rapid wide spread of...
Danish Swine Congress: Detecting piglet diarrhoea Novel ways of early diarrhoea detection in weaner pigs received attention at the second day of this year’s...
Danish Swine Congress: Focus on PEDv and MRSA The first day of the annual Danish Swine Congress (Svinekongres) had a series of nice, informative presentations...
Pig health in the spotlight in new Pig Progress magazine The latest edition of Pig Progress is available to read online. The issue focuses on welfare issues – but even...
10 Key questions about the risk of ASF African Swine Fever made its entrance into Western Europe as well as China this fall, causing a lot of...
Q3 2017: The global pork outlook has downside risk As from this quarter, pig and pork market expert Dr John Strak will take a deep dive into the world of figures...
PED revisited – how did Manitoba cope in 2017? Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED), wasn’t that a virus that happened a few years ago? Well, not exactly. The...
Algae extracts to improve piglet gut health At what moment does a piglet need help? At weaning or does protection have to start sooner? Applying a strategy...
Japan's market for imported pork is large Japan has long been known as the number one pork importing country in the world. Although it recently lost this...
PEDv: An intercontinental update Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) has proved to be devastating in herds in e.g. Asia and North America....
What if the US pig sector embraced its potential? The US pig industry is already huge, but what if the country embraced its potential? With better biosecurity,...
How Canada beat the PED virus For the US pig industry, PED virus was a catastrophe. In Canada, however, the damage was a lot less. But why and...
Dealing with PED virus (III) In the two previous episodes on this subject, I touched on the resemblance of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED)...
How butyrate can help to combat PED Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) has been affecting pig production worldwide. Next to strict biosecurity...
PEDv is still active in US swine herds PEDv is still active in swine herds in the US. Unlike previous reports of TGE, which seemed to disappear after a...
Dealing with PED virus (II) Standard Operating Procedures, as published in the United Kingdom, are guideline documents that can help...
The ever widening web of collaboration It seems that whenever the latest swine research or development project hits the headlines, the word...
Dealing with PED virus (I) Much has been written about Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus, this traumatic disease. In these notes John...
US hopes to look beyond PED at World Pork Expo Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) has made the US pig industry suffer for the last 48 months. Slowly,...
US pig herd largely recovered from PEDv Latest figures from USDA’s hogs and pigs inventory show that the country’s pig herd on 1 March was 7% larger...
WPX 2015 in pictures – main theme: antibiotics The gradual disappearance of antimicrobials as growth promoter was definitely the main theme at this year’s...