MULTISYSTEMIC WASTING SYNDROME, SWINE - NEW ZEALAND

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Archive Number20031020.2640Published Date20-OCT-2003SubjectPRO/AH> Multisystemic

wasting syndrome, swine - New Zealand

MULTISYSTEMIC WASTING SYNDROME, SWINE - NEW

ZEALAND***************************************************A ProMED-mail

post<http://www.promedmail.org>ProMED-mail, a program of theInternational

Society for Infectious Diseases<http://www.isid.org>Date: 20 Oct. 2003

ProMED-mail <promedSource: USAgNET 15 Oct 2003 [edited]An

outbreak of a hog disease that cannot be treated has hit New Zealand.

Agriculture officials, citing initial tests at a pig farm where 1/3 of the

piglets died, said final DNA results won't be available for 2 weeks, but other

clinical and pathological tests showed the animals had post-weaning

multisystemic wasting syndrome.Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry exotic

disease response coordinator Clifton King said the disease, which usually kills

affected pigs aged 6 to 12 weeks, is widespread outside New Zealand and

Australia. It causes the animals to waste away and is connected with other pig

viruses such as porcine parvovirus. The disease was

identified in the early 1990s and has since been found with increasing

frequency in pig farms in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.Until now, New

Zealand and Australia have been among the few countries that had no

cases.--ProMED-mail<promed[see also:Multisystemic wasting

syndrome, swine - NZ (02): suspected 20031004.2497Multisystemic wasting

syndrome, swine - NZ: suspected

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