Royal Veterinary College Research To Tackle PMWS
UK - The Royal Veterinary College is contributing to a £11.5m programme to tackle some of the most harmful and widespread diseases that commonly affect farmed animals in the UK.

NADIS Pig Veterinary Report and Forecast - July 2007
UK - This is a monthly report from the National Animal Disease Information Service (NADIS), looking at the data collected from their UK farm inspections.

EU PCV-2 Annual Research Award launched by Boehringer Ingelheim
GERMANY - Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health announced the launch of the European PCV-2 Award, which recognizes excellent research proposals in the area of applied immunological PCV-2 research.

Complacency over PCVDs, could threaten global pig health
EU - The team heading-up the European Commission-funded research project on porcine circovirus diseases (PCVD), says that imporant diseases may be exisiting unnoticed in some herds, because farmers and veterinary surgeons have become too familiar with...

Brits should work together to vaccinate against PCV2, says French vet
UK - Merial's PCV2 vaccine Circovac arrives in Britain this September.

Help on way for pork producers battling PCVAD
DES MOINES, Iowa - Help is on the way for pork producers battling porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD).

Scarce vaccine zaps circo virus
US - A hard-to-kill virus sweeping through hog herds worldwide is meeting its match: a vaccine that is very effective, but in short supply.

PMWS and PDNS in the UK
UK - Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) Quarterly Surveillance report on PMWS and PDNS from January to March 2006.

PRRS as a Co-Factor of PCVAD
US - Previously in this column, we have discussed the symptoms and virulence of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD), writes JoAnn Alumbaugh on Farms.com.

NADIS Pig Veterinary Report and Forecast - May 2007
UK - This is a monthly report from the National Animal Disease Information Service (NADIS), looking at the data collected from their UK farm inspections.

PCV2 vaccine on the cards for Europe
EU - The PCV2 vaccine Circovac, may be available in Britain within three to six months. The European Medicines Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use has recommended that the vaccine, produced by Merial, is granted marketing authorisation....

NADIS Pig Veterinary Report and Forecast – April 2007
UK - This is a monthly report from the National Animal Disease Information Service (NADIS), looking at the data collected from their UK farm inspections.

Save £40 million, Pig Producers Told
YORKSHIRE - Faced with higher costs due to the escalating price of feed, the British pig industry could save over £40 million per year, simply by improving feed conversion by 0.1. This represents 267,000 tonnes of feed at an average price of £150 per...

New Vaccine Will Reduce PCV2 And Salmonella
UK - It is essential the new PCV2 vaccines are made available to British pig-keepers as soon as possible, says Giles Penn, of Yorkshire-based DRS Partnership in Pigs Ltd.

Pork Industry Battling New Diseases From Well-Known Virus
US - The U.S. pork industry is looking for answers to a new danger. A cluster of ailments linked to the circovirus has recently emerged. Known collectively as porcine circovirus associated diseases, or PCVAD, they have the potential to seriously impact...

Hog producers must focus on total biosecurity
IOWA - Butch Baker says hog producers must control all segments of production to ensure biosecurity in their operations.

New viral strain kills more hogs in U.S.
CALIFORNIA - A new strain of the swine disease circovirus is killing a larger number of hogs in the United States and the industry is taking steps to combat the growing death toll, a leading veterinarian said.

Preliminary Trials for a PCV2 Swine Vaccine Look Promising
KANSAS - Kansas State University researchers have developed what appears to be a promising vaccine against Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2), a disease that researchers predict every swine herd in the United States is infected with.

Porcine Circovirus a Global Problem
CANADA - Porcine Circovirus-2 (PCV-2) has become a major health concern not only in the United States, but in other world regions as well, reports JoAnn Alumbaugh.

Kansas State study finds new vaccine effective against deadly viral disease affecting swine
KANSAS - Researchers from Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine have completed a study showing that a newly-developed vaccine is effective against a deadly viral disease that is affecting swine herds in Kansas.