No further details are provided.
That brings the total to 73 cases in Ontario and five in
January.
The Ontario Pork Industry Council is urging truckers to step
up their biosecurity because it says trucking has been responsible for many of
the eight outbreaks during December and January.
It said truckers ought to realize
that they could be picking up PED virus when they deliver hogs to packing
plants, when they visit assembly yards and that a PED-free pig can be shedding
the virus within 18 to 24 hours of coming into contact with the disease.
The council says packing plants that
slaughter barbecue pigs ought to be considered PED-infected.
It repeats cautions that
truck-washing facilities in the United States are not safe; the washing and
disinfecting ought to be done at an approved facility in Ontario.
The first case of PED in the province was diagnosed in
January of last year.
