African swine fever variants currently outside Africa

From Georgia 2007 to Thailand 2022, Greece 2022 and the Dominican Republic 2021, the same virus strain and sequence is recognised as ASF type 2 with minimal change to the virus. There have been no...

Some skin conditions in pigs: types, control and prevention

Pigs are prone to abscesses (Figure 2). Subcutaneous abscesses can be very large and may contain up to 6 litres of purulent material. The presence of an abscess can be confirmed by inserting a long...

Porcine circoviruses

PCV1 was recognised as a contaminant of porcine kidney cell lines (PK-15) in the 1970s. A range of common conditions was initially wrongly attributed to PCV1, e.g. stillbirths, mummified piglets,...

Biosecurity

Biosecurity is a word coined to describe the concept where pathogens' access to a farm is restricted, controlled, reduced or eliminated. It must be remembered that biosecurity is not disease control...