In Manitoba, officials have found PED on 12 operations but the buffer areas surrounding these farms have been disease-free since early June, the article said.
“In 2018, we’ve had 12 infected premises. Seven of those premises have been infected in other years,” Jenelle Hamblin, manager of swine health programs with Manitoba Pork, said to Farms.com yesterday.
“Of the 12 (cases), six were sow operations, three were nurseries and three were finisher” barns.
Producers and veterinarians have been working diligently to reach presumptive negative status in these herds.
Disease concerns stretch beyond Canadian borders, though.
China recently discovered its third outbreak of ASF in swine herds, a Reuters article said on Sunday.
The transmission of ASF from China is worrisome “because of the contact – people travelling to and from China,” Christensen said.
But biosecurity measures can help producers protect their hog operations from disease.
“Manitoba Pork is looking at a phased biosecurity plan – with normal day-to-day biosecurity (protocols that producers) should always be following and we’ve encouraged producers to put together plans that they can quickly implement for enhanced biosecurity should they hear there is a case of PED close by,” Hamblin said.
National Pork Board and the Pork Checkoff, Des Moines, IA USA photo
UPDATED Aug. 23, 2018