Manitoba's Chief Veterinary Officer expects swine barns in the province that have been infected with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea to be free of the infection within the next couple of months.
Manitoba's first case of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea was identified in February 2014, and since then a total of 5 farms, including 2 sow sites and 3 finisher sites have been infected.
Dr. Megan Bergman, Manitoba's Chief Veterinary Officer, says so far strategies aimed at ridding the farms of the virus have been quite successful.
Dr. Megan Bergman-Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development:
The strategies that have been used to eliminate PED from a farm have been developed through consultation with herd veterinarians and information gathered from PED infected regions.
The affected herds and their vets have worked really closely with the CVO to implement the best strategy for their circumstances.
Finisher operations are able to empty their barns, thoroughly clean and disinfect them and then test the barn to ensure that they've eliminated the virus prior to repopulation.
Then what we do is implement a testing strategy when we introduce healthy pigs to ensure that they don't become infected with PED and that helps us to determine that we've actually eliminated the virus from the barn.
Source : Farmscape