How is PEDv controlled and prevented in the US?

16-12-2022 | |
PEDV US
The economic impact includes a high mortality rate in piglets, reduced volumes of available pig and hog supplies, and a decrease in annual returns for packers, processors, distributors, and retailers. Photo: Peter Roek
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) has a big economic impact on the swine industry in the US. What does the country do to control and prevent its spread? What is PEDv? Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) is a coronavirus causing atrophic enteritis of the intestine. This leads to malabsorption and consequently acute diarrhoea, vomiting, dehydration and high mortality (80-100%) in neonatal piglets. In older pigs, the disease is mostly manifested by acute transient diarrhoea with high m


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Samaneh Azarpajouh Author, veterinarian