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J. Anim Sci. 1961. 20:88-92.
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Eradication of Atrophic Rhinitis and Virus Pig Pneumonia from a Swine Herd

W. G. Pond, S. J. Roberts, J. A. Dunn, J. M. King, J. H. Maner, R. S. Lowrey and P. Olafson1, 2,

Abstract

A program was undertaken to eradicate atrophic rhinitis and virus pig pneumonia from the Cornell University swine herd. This consisted of breaking the cycle of infection by removing the pigs from their dams immediately after birth and raising them in isolation from other swine. Foundation animals were selected from pigs raised in this way and were mated by natural service to boars raised with them in isolation or by artificial insemination to regular herd sires. Pigs farrowed from these matings were raised in the conventional way, the only precaution being that of maintaining strict isolation from atrophic rhinitis- virus pneumonia- infected swine.

Of 91 snouts and lungs checked from the main herd over a two-year period, 8 and 31 have been diagnosed positive for atrophic rhinitis and virus pneumonia, respectively, as compared to 0 and 0 out of 39 checked from the group raised in isolation.

These preliminary data lend further support to the evidence that these two diseases are spread only by direct contact of infected swine with susceptible swine. This provides a means of simultaneously eradicating atrophic rhinitis and virus pig pneumonia from a swine herd under reasonably practical conditions.

Footnotes

1 Department of Animal Husbandry, New York State College of Agriculture and Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Obstetrics and of Pathology, New York State Veterinary College.

2 Acknowledgement is made to D. L. Bokelman, R. M. Kenney and R. A. Mason for examining some of the heads and lungs from pigs slaughtered, to B. E. Sheffy for valuable advice in the planning of this work and to G. Kiger and R. Carpenter for care and feeding of the animals.






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