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Case Histories
Yorkshire Farm, UK - Mike Muirhead - Final Update, June 2002
Mike Muirhead's case history of a Yorkshire farm with PMWS and PDNS.
East Anglia Farm, UK - Philip Richardson
This paper charts the course and effects of the disease on a single herd as well as highlighting the economic impact.
Photographs
Clinical signs
Photos of the clinical signs that are seen generally in pigs with PMWS and PDNS. Includes skin lesions, enlarged lymph glands, wasting and dead pigs.
Post mortem (1)
Photos of the signs that are seen in post-mortem samples of pigs with PMWS and PDNS. Includes interstitial pneumonia, secondary bacterial infection, enlarged lymph nodes, oedema and intra cytoplasmic inclusions
Post mortem (2)
More Photos of the signs that are seen in post-mortem samples of pigs with PMWS and PDNS.


PMWS Research Archives

Published Tuesday, November 01, 2005: Pig Journal Volume: 56 -
Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) in purebred wild boar (Sus Scrofa) on a farm in East Anglia
N.G.A. Woodger
Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) was diagnosed in farmed Wild Boar in East Anglia. This involved an overstocked unit, resulting from movement restrictions following the 2001 Foot-and-Mouth disease epidemic.
A severe wasting disease with scouring, coughing and anorexia was first noticed in growing pigs from 3-4 months of age, in April 2003. There was a marked increase in mortality, which approached 50 per cent of all growing pigs. This paper describes the background, laboratory findings and conclusions leading to the diagnosis of PMWS and other diseases after post-mortems on seven affected pigs. Possible sources and the impact of management changes are discussed.
Several reports of PMWS in Eurasian Wild Boar in Canada, Spain and Germany are recorded; but this would appear to be the first report of PMWS in farmed purebred Wild Boar in the UK.

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