date:Apr 16, 2014
xia, depression and watery white or off-white intestinal contents. It affects particulalry young piglets and can produce mortality between 50 and 80 per cent.
It is noteworthy that this illness is not zoonotic, i.e. it is not transmitted to humans.
Transmission occurs through contaminated faeces. The most common sources of infection are the faeces of infected pigs trucks, boots, clothing or other objects.
The ICA has ordered quarantine of the affected premises, followed by cleansing and disin