News - Disease

The chair of Manitoba Pork says swine health issues and the need to better control disease has emerged as a key issue during discussions with pork producers in Minnesota and Iowa.

The Manager of PigTrace Canada says the mandatory reporting of swine movements in Canada is already demonstrating its value in terms of tracking the movement of disease.

A veterinary pathologist with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine says the level of interest in the use of oral fluids testing to detect infections in the swine herd is building.

The chair of Sask Pork says the devastation cause by PED has demonstrated the need for a strong national approach to guarding Canada’s boarders from the entry of new animal disease threats.

The introduction of Swine Traceability is expected to give Canada’s pork industry an advantage in terms of animal disease response, food safety and market access.

The chair of the Ontario Swine Health Advisory Board is calling for a national strategy to work with USDA and other U.S. agencies to close the portal through which swine diseases are able to enter North America.

A veterinarian with the Office of Manitoba’s Chief Veterinarian says tools developed over the past few years have helped prepare the Canadian swine industry to deal with new disease threats, such as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea.

The National Pork Board says Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea has exposed areas which the U.S. pork industry needs to better understand and pay closer attention to better protect pigs from disease.

A professor of veterinary medicine with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine suggests the use of genomics is the way of the future for limiting disease within the swine herd.

The manager of the Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network says as the number of swine veterinarians submitting swine health information to the network grows the level of confidence in the data will increase.