UK Pig Disease Quarterly Surveillance Report - August 2004
By Veterinary Laboratories Agency - This report monitors trends in the major endemic pig diseases and utilises the farmfile and VIDA (Veterinary Investigation Disease Analysis) databases. The report is compiled using disease data gathered by the network of 15 VLA regional laboratories which carry out disease investigation in the field.
20 September 2004
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 April – June 2004 - Published Aug 2004 Contents OVERVIEW (here) NOTIFIABLE DISEASES: ZOONOTIC DISEASES/FOOD SAFETY: - Potential Food Safety Incidents - Salmonellosis, Salmonella incidents: - Brucellosis - Streptococcal infections & disease, Streptococcus suis isolates, incidents, Other streptococcal infections ENDEMIC DISEASES PMWS and PDNS ENTERIC DISEASE RESPIRATORY DISEASE: - Swine Influenza REPRODUCTIVE DISEASE MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE WELFARE |
Highlights: Second Quarter 2004
- Further indications of a diminution in the effects of PMWS
- An additional report of an outbreak of coccidiosis in older pigs.
- Several sunburn incidents reported despite availability of wallows
- BPEX progress plans to implement the British Pig Health Scheme (BPHS) through national abattoir disease surveillance
Overview
The Meat and Livestock Commission
Economics (www.mlceconomics.org.uk),
Pig Market Outlook: 04/3 July 2004,
provides an overview of the pig sector.
Pig prices remained between 108 and
110p/kg dw (GB Deadweight Average Pig
Price: DAPP) during the second quarter.
Prices nevertheless did not fully
compensate for the higher feed costs
compared with 2003.
Productivity of sows is considered likely
to improve for the rest of the year, partly
because of a declining impact of the
reduced productivity attributed to the very
hot summer weather in 2003, partly
because of the breeding herd’s more
stable age structure, and partly because
of a diminishing adverse impact from
postweaning multisystemic wasting
syndrome (PMWS).
BPEX included the development of
improved disease surveillance
information for producers as a high
priority within its ‘Strategy for British
Health and Welfare’. Current plans are
to implement the British Pig Health
Scheme (BPHS) through a national abattoir scheme. Initially in three English
abattoirs from September, followed by
the national scheme early next year.
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Source: Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) - August 2004
