There were another 191 farms infected with Porcine Epidemic
Diarrhea virus in the United States last week, increasing the total to 8,421.
Meanwhile no new cases have been posted on the Ontario Pork
marketing board website since April 30.
Ontario’s swine veterinarians and government officials have
been saying that a combination of warmer weather and continued biosecurity
ought to end the spread of the deadly virus here.
It kills almost all baby pigs and sets back older pigs for a
week or 10 days.
There are estimates that about seven million U.S. piglets
have died of the highly-contagious virus.
There have been no official estimates
of losses in Ontario, but the province’s second-largest hog-packing business is
in receivership, partly because the virus reduced hog supplies and increased
prices.
