Manitoba has imposed a five-kilometre quarantine zone around a hog finisher barn and called on producers to practice heightened biosecurity because of the first case this year of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus.
The response is the first time the province’s new PED containment plan has been activated.
It was developed by the Manitoba Pork marketing board and Manitoba Agriculture department.
The farm and quarantine zone are in the Southwestern part of the province.
Ontario has had 15 outbreaks of PED and eight of Porcine Deltacorona virus this year.
