PEDv Canada: Outbreaks may be related to the cold In Canada, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) has been demanding attention these weeks as this year alone 4...
Pig Progress 3: Focus on health and piglets Health issues as well as piglet feeding have a strong focus in the 3rd edition of Pig Progress in 2018. The...
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...
Berries and ramsoms could kill E. coli in piglets A cocktail of ramsons and acidic berries has been found to be have strong and synergistic antimicrobial...
PEDv: Disinfectant inactivates in cold weather A team of American researchers have reported that different dilutions of disinfectant were effective in...
EU to end high-level zinc oxide use for piglets in 5 years If they were using zinc oxide to control post-weaning diarrhoea, pig producers in the European Union will soon...
Pig Progress 5: Focus on genetics and biosecurity Top themes for the fifth issue of Pig Progress this year are ‘breeding and genetics’ as well as ‘biosecurity’.
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,...
Surviving SDCoV with feed additives Using certain kinds of feed additives may reduce Swine Delta Coronavirus (SDCoV) survival in complete feed...
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...
Disinfectant proves successful against PEDv Researchers at the University of Minnesota have shown that a desinfectant is particularly effective against...
Canada regains market access for live swine to Chile The Harper Government has re-established market access to Chile for live swine, a market that industry estimates...
UK: Pig Industry disease charter launched A new significant diseases charter has been launched by BPEX in the face of threats from challenges such as...
UK: Steps taken to tackle PED threat Specialised guides to help the industry cope with an outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea have been produced...
Review: Sows, PEDv and App at ESPHM in France Group housing of sows, PEDv and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae – were three of the main themes of the recently...
Piglet vaccine authorised to fight E. coli infections Prevtec Microbia has announced that its German subsidiary, Prevtec Microbia, received marketing authorisation...
Leaving pig health to the next generation Pig health expert David Burch has been writing weblogs for Pig Progress for over 10 years. He now feels it is...
Zinc: Diarrhoea treatment in piglets and… children The use of high levels of zinc oxide in piglet diets for prevention of post-weaning diarrhoea is a hot topic...
Less post-weaning diarrhoea in vaccinated piglets Most pig farms take preventive measures to limit the economic impact of post-weaning diarrhoea, including safe...
Piglets in the era without zinc oxide Many solutions have existed to avoid the occurrence of post-weaning diarrhoea, but one by one they are...
Zinc oxide ban: An alternative plan? For environmental reasons, the European Union has embarked on a process that may lead to a serious reduction of...
Colostrum: Key to prevent diarrhoea in suckling pigs It’s an old acquaintance of pig farmers, a very well-known phenomenon: scouring piglets in the farrowing house....
How gene editing can help create better pigs Gene editing is a relatively new area in genetic science where DNA is being cut to introduce a new strain, to...
The ever widening web of collaboration It seems that whenever the latest swine research or development project hits the headlines, the word...
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,...
Stress makes pigs more susceptible to disease Stress makes pigs more likely to suffer from porcince circoviris associated disease (PCVAD), scientists from the...