Some lessons on autumn abortion syndrome

Urinary tract infections are present in sow farms at rates going from 17 to 45% and above. When vulvae discharges are seen, an elevated number of animals are already affected and some are irrecoverable. Insight into the problem – and its relation to climate – is one step on the way to prevention. By Diego Padoan, DVM, Biomin, Italy The well-known American author and journalist Hal Borland once wrote: “For the fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice.