Three cases of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus have
flared up in Quebec within three days, bringing the total to nine.
The province’s swine health team (EQSP) said Friday it
had confirmed PED in hogs at a 2,700-head nursery operation at St-Aime, with an
epidemiological link to the province’s sixth case at a nearby nursery
barn in the same area.
The province’s eighth case was confirmed over the
weekend, EQSP said in a separate release Monday, at a 3,500-head nursery
operation at St-Liboire, also in the eastern Monteregie.
On Monday it confirmed
the ninth case.
EQSP said a traceback is now underway to see if the
St-Liboire operation had epidemiological links to previous cases at
St-Denis-sur-Richelieu and St-Aime.
The ninth PED case is in a herd of 550 sows St-Hugues,
also in the eastern Monteregie, about 25 km north of St-Hyacinthe.
Ontario has been quiet since two outbreaks in the
Waterloo Region – a nursery and a finishing barn – on Dec. 17 and 24.
