The Ontario Pork Council and the Ontario Swine Health
Advisory Board have been achieving remarkable progress cleaning up herds that
were infected with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus.
There are 108 sites registered in its ARC&E (area regional
control and elimination) program and 82 of those have achieved “presumed
negative” status.
Five involved Delta coronavirus and one of those five also
had PED.
That’s a 76 per cent success rate.
“Our industry has proven we can eliminate PED from all types of pig
sites,” say the two organizations.
They
launched the ARC&E program several years ago to address the PRRS (Porcine
Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome) virus.
