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Swine Health Information Center Offers Additional Diagnostic Support in Special Cases
Dr. Paul Sundberg - Swine Health Information Center

Farmscape for March 7, 2016

The Swine Health Information Center, in an effort to ensure any new swine disease entering the U.S. is identified, will offer additional diagnostic support in cases where the cause of high mortality or morbidity has gone unidentified.
As part of the Swine Health Information Center's 2016 strategic plan, which was outlined during the 2016 American Association of Swine Veterinarians annual general meeting in New Orleans, support will be offered for further diagnostic fee support in cases of high mortality or high morbidity where a veterinarian hasn't been able to reach a satisfactory diagnosis.
Swine Health Information Center Executive Director Dr. Paul Sundberg says we don't want to miss an emerging disease.

Clip-Dr. Paul Sundberg-Swine Health Information Center:
We've had cases in the U.S. where, for example, we've had high mortality.
On a specific case we had high mortality on a finishing floor.
80 percent of the placements on the finishing floor ended up dying and that was very quick.
We lost a lot of pigs very quickly on a specific finishing floor.
We went through a whole battery of tests, including foreign animal disease tests and they were all negative.
We don't know why that happened but there weren't funds to support ongoing investigation and we want to make sure that we offer the opportunity to be able to discover a new or emerging disease.
It's beyond the routine diagnostics.
This is an effort to help with fees for continued diagnostics, not routine diagnostics in cases but in special cases.
That's all going to come from contacting the Swine Health information Center and requesting that.
We'll go through the list of things that have to happen in order for those feed\s to be offered and then we'll help with continued investigation in those high morbidity high mortality cases.

For more information on the Swine health Information Center's 2016 strategic plan visit swinehealth.org.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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