Disease guide

1. Disease & welfare

A

• Abortion and embryo loss
• Abscesses
• Actinobacillosis
• Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia (APP)
• African swine fever (ASF)
• Agalactia and udder oedema
• Anaemia
• Anthrax
• Arthritis
• Atresia ani (no anus or rectum)
• Atrophic Rhinitis (AR)
• Aujeszky's disease

B

• Back Muscle Necrosis
• Biotin Deficiency
• Blue eye disease (BE)
• Border disease (Bovine viral diarrhoea)
• Bordetellosis
• Borna Disease
• Botulism
• Bowel oedema (oedema disease)
• Brucellosis
• Bursitis
• Bush foot (foot rot)

C

• Campylobacter
• Classical swine fever (Hog cholera)
• Clostridial Diseases
• Coccidiosis (Coccidia parasites)
• Colitis
• Congenital tremors (shaking piglets)
• Cystic Ovaries
• Cystitis and Pyelonephritis

D

• Diarrhoea or scours
• Dipped shoulder (humpy back, kinky back, kyphosis)

E

• Eclampsia
• Electrocution
• Encephalomyocarditis (EMCV)
• Endometritis and vulval discharge syndrome
• Enteroviruses (SMEDI)
• Enzootic Pneumonia or Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection
• Eperythrozoonosis
• Epitheliogenesis imperfecta (imperfect skin)
• Erysipelas

F

• Fever
• Foot and mouth disease (FMD)
• Fractures
• Frostbite

G

• Gastric Ulcers
• Glässers disease (Haemophilus parasuis)
• Greasy pig disease (Exudative epidermitis)

H

• Haematoma
• Heat Stroke
• Hepatitis E Virus
• Hernias
• Hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar)

I

• Ileitis (porcine enteropathy)
• Inherited thick legs (Hyperostosis)
• Iron toxicity (Vitamin E Deficiency)

J

• Japanese B. encephalitis (JBE)
• Jaw and Snout Deviation
• Joint Ill in Piglets

L

• Lameness
• Laminitis
• Leptospirosis
• Listeriosis
• Lymphosarcoma

M

• Mammary hypoplasia (underdeveloped udders)
• Mastitis
• Meningitis
• Metritis (inflammation of the womb)
• Middle Ear Infections
• Mulberry heart disease (vitamin E deficiency)
• Muscle tear
• Mycoplasma Arthritis
• Mycotoxicosis

N

• Nipah virus

O

• Osteochondrosis (leg weakness - OCD)
• Osteodystrophy (bone disease)
• Osteomalacia
• Osteoporosis

P

• Pale pig syndrome (naval bleeding)
• Parasites
• Pasteurellosis (Pasteurella multocidia)
• Penis Bleeding
• Peritonitis
• Pneumonia
• Poisons
• Porcine cytomegalovirus infection (PCMV)
• Porcine Dermatitis and Nephropathy Syndrome (PDNS)
• Porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED)
• Porcine parvovirus (PPV)
• Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)
• Porcine respiratory coronavirus (PRCV)
• Porcine Stress Syndrome (PSS)
• Post-weaning (spirochaetal) diarrhoea
• Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS)
• Preputial ulceration
• Prolapse of the Bladder
• Prolapse of the Rectum
• Prolapse of the uterus (womb)
• Prolapse of the Vagina and Cervix

R

• Rabies
• Rectal Stricture
• Retroviruses
• Rotavirus Infection
• Ruptured blood vessel (at farrowing)

S

• Salt poisoning (water deprivation)
• Savaging of Piglets (Cannibalism)
• Shoulder Sores
• Splaylegs
• Stillbirths
• Streptococcal infections (meningitis)
• Streptococcal Meningitis
• Sunburn
• Swine dysentery (SD)
• Swine fevers: African and Classical
• Swine influenza (flu) virus
• Swine Pox
• Swine Vesicular Disease (SVD)

T

• Teat Necrosis
• Teschen disease (porcine enterovirus)
• Tetanus (clostridium tetani)
• Thin Sow Syndrome
• Thrombocytopaenic purpura
• Torsion of the stomach and intestines
• Transmissible gastro-enteritis (TGE)

V

• Vesicular Exanthema
• Vesicular stomatitis (VS)
• Vice (abnormal behaviour and vulval biting)
• Vice (tail-biting, flank chewing, ear biting)
• Vitamin A poisoning
• Vomiting and wasting disease (Ontario encephalitis)
• Vulval Haematoma

Y

• Yersinia Infection