Research conducted on behalf of the Swine Health Information Center suggests outbreaks across the United States of Streptococcus zooepidemicus, were the result of different strains of the bacteria and are unrelated.
Streptococcus zooepidemicus, is common in different species of animals but when it crosses species it can create problems. As part of its emerging disease monitoring efforts the Swine Health Information Center has been tracking the infection.
SHIC Executive Director Dr. Paul Sundberg explains Strep zoo was first identified in China many years ago, more recently there was an isolation in Canada, then a couple of years ago in Tennessee, Ohio and Pennsylvania and just recently in Indiana.
Clip-Dr. Paul Sundberg-Swine Health Information Center: