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Vaccinations are available for a number of diseases that affect swine. In some cases vaccination constitutes the major part of the control of the disease. In many other cases it is only a small part of the control program. Vaccination programs need to be tailored to each swine operation. Remember that vaccination only raises a pig's level of resistance. If other important management procedures are neglected, even this elevated level of resistance may be inadequate to prevent disease.
Vaccines must be stored and administered according to label directions if they are to be effective. Slaughter withdrawal time must be observed at all times to avoid illegal residues. The most common times for administering many vaccines are before breeding and before farrowing. This protects the sow and passes antibodies to the piglets for their protection.
The UK could not effectively tackle foot-and-mouth disease using emergency vaccination if another outbreak were to occur in the immediate future.
That is the view of the Royal Society which published a report on Tues (Dec 21) reviewing the work undertaken by DEFRA to ensure the UK is better prepared for a future outbreak.
The report recognises that the government has already done significant work, but it also identifies problems with the use of emergency vaccination that urgently need to...
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Hong Kong health chief said yesterday piglets will be vaccinated next spring to prevent the possible spread of Japanese encephalitis, local radio reported.
York Zhou, secretary for health, welfare and food, was quoted by Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Co as saying that the government has enhanced the mosquitoes surveillance and was collecting information on the quantity of mosquitoes that may carry the JE virus, in an effort to control the breeding of those mosquitoes.
Chow said the...
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A vaccination programme for pigs against Japanese encephalitis will be in place before summer next year, Director of Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Thomas Chan says.
Speaking to the media today, Mr Chan said Japanese encephalitis virus will become more active in warm weather. Therefore, it is time to work out and refine details of the vaccination programme for implementation before the coming summer.
He expected the programme details will be finalised in several months, and the...
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The results of one of the largest abattoir surveys ever conducted, which examined more than 80,000 lungs from more than 800 farms, were presented at the recent International Pig Veterinary Society Congress in Hamburg.
It provided pig vets and producers with interesting statistics on the efficiency of the current range of commercially available Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccines.
Checking lung lesions at slaughter is an important tool for vets to better monitor the health status of farms...
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Authorities this week announced that an outbreak of swine fever in Papua province has since April killed at least 8,700 pigs, mostly in the southern coastal region of Mimika.
Livestock health authorities have been shipping vaccines to the region in an effort to contain the virus.
Swine fever, also known as hog cholera, is highly infectious among farm-raised pigs and wild boars, but is not dangerous to humans.
Although pigs are not very popular in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, they...
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The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization in Saskatoon has released a new guide designed to help swine producers maximize the benefits of vaccines.
Vaccination Guidelines for Swine was developed by the VIDO Swine Technical Group, with funding provided by pork producer associations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario.
The package was modeled after a similar guide developed by the VIDO Beef Technical Group for beef producers and it contains much of the same background...
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