PEDv: The industry’s number 1 health concern

Until May 2013, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea was only known to veterinarians in the US. One year later, the whole of the US knows about it – and those areas not infected pray this will stay the same. What is it and what may help to avoid it? By Prof Dr Robert Morrison and Dane Goede, Faculty of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, United States Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) has been causing an alarming increase in piglet mortality as it continues to spre