Porcine Epidemic
Diarrhea Virus has hit a nursery-finisher operation in Chatham-Kent.
It’s the first outbreak
since March 7, is the third this year and those three are the first since June
of last year.
The virus is
devastating to piglets with death rates sometimes running to 100 per cent. It
is less fatal to older pigs.
The Ontario industry
has learned a great deal about containing outbreaks and cleaning up infected
herds since the disease first came here from the United States in January,
2014.
