Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) was first identified in Canada January 22, 2014. Since\u00a0that first case, two strains of PEDv and Porcine Delta Coronavirus (PDCoV) have been\u00a0identified. Four provinces, Ontario, Quebec, PEI and Manitoba have had cases on farms.\u00a0The following information is an update, describing the PED and associated coronavirus\u00a0situation in Canada as of March 2015.<\/p>\n
So far the Canadian PED story is a good news story. The epidemic has not mirrored the\u00a0one in the United States. It is estimated that over 50% of the U.S. sow herd has been\u00a0exposed while less than 1% of the Canadian sow herd has been exposed. There are some\u00a0explanations. Canada has focused control, containment and elimination efforts on all\u00a0phases of pork production while the US focus was primarily on sow herds. The feed risk\u00a0was identified very early in the Canadian epidemic and measures were taken to reduce this\u00a0risk. High risk points of contact have been contained more effectively and because\u00a0growing pig sites have been identified packing plant contamination has been more\u00a0manageable. Finally, the Canadian industry had almost a year to prepare after the disease\u00a0had entered the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) was first identified in Canada January 22, 2014. Since\u00a0that first case, two strains of PEDv and Porcine Delta Coronavirus (PDCoV) have been\u00a0identified. Four provinces, Ontario, Quebec, PEI and Manitoba have had cases on farms.\u00a0The following information is an update, describing the PED and associated coronavirus\u00a0situation in Canada as of March 2015. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-pork-insight-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19308,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19307\/revisions\/19308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}