Pig health issues: Overview of Latin America

New diseases and persistent ones restrain progress in the field of animal health in Latin America. Reasons for this are numerous – lack of animal health legislation based on international standards, insufficient education and knowledge updates for veterinarians and poor diagnosis capacity. Even so, meat production continues to rise, even in countries where disease pressure is still high. Circovirus, teschovirus, paramyxovirus, Classical Swine Fever (CSF), gastro-enteritis. These are some of t