Classical Swine Fever In Nicaragua

NICARAGUA - This is follow up report No.1 via OIE on the Classical Swine Fever outbreak in domestic pigs in Nicaragua.

22 January 2007

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North America

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Information received on 22/01/2007 from Dr. Roberto Antonio Dangla Lira, Director de Salud Animal, Managua, Dirección General de Protección y Sanidad Agropecuaria, MANAGUA, Nicaragua

Summary

Report type	Follow-up report No. 1 (Final report)
Start date	12/12/2006
Date of confirmation of event	20/12/2006
Report date	22/01/2007
Date submitted to OIE	22/01/2007
Reason for notification	Reoccurrence of listed disease
Date of previous occurrence	13/06/2005
Manifestation of disease	Clinical disease
Causal agent	Virus de la familia Flaviviridae , género pestevirus
Nature of diagnosis	Clinical, Laboratory (advanced)
Report pertains to	Entire country
Related reports	Immediate notification (05/01/2007) Follow-up report No. 1 (22/01/2007)
Outbreaks	There are no new outbreaks in this report

Epidemiology

Source of infection	Unknown or inconclusive
Epidemiological comments	El 21 de diciembre de 2006, se inició la vacunación de los cerdos existentes en un radio de 6 km alrededor del foco, empezando por el perímetro exterior. Una brigada de Medicos Veterinarios Oficiales realiza las investigaciones epidemiológicas necesarias para determinar las causas que originaron el foco.

Control measures

Measures already applied	Vaccination in response to the outbreak (s) Vaccination permitted Treatment of affected animals (Se recomendó aplicación de biodipirona y antibiótico)
Measures to be applied	None specified

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory name and type

Laboratorio Central de Diagnóstico Veterinario (Regional Reference Laboratory)

Tests and results