Pig

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National Animal Disease Information Service

Sustainable Control of Parasites in sheep (SCOPS) and worming strategies designed to delay the onset of wormer resistance.

Intervet created the ResPig® Farm Audit and Economic Simulator tools as an aid for veterinarians to analyze PRDC related farm problems and make decisions on the control of swine respiratory disease. In addition to the online tools, this web site also contains information on PRDC and Intervet pig vaccines.

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ResPig® Farm Audit and Economic Simulator tool

An aid for veterinarians to analyze PRDC related farm problems and make decisions on the control of swine respiratory disease. In addition to the online tools, this web site also contains information on PRDC and Intervet pig vaccines.

 

DateDescription
1 Nov 2007 Firewall tactics from PRRS vaccination strategy
By John Richardson, Pig Business Manager, Intervet. Pig mortality clearly has a financial penalty - typically adding 50 pence to the cost of producing each pig sold for every one per cent increase in ...
1 Jan 2006 How the PRRS virus attacks pigs
The porcine alveolar macrophage is one of the most important means by which a pig clears pathogens from its lungs. Unfortunately, it is also the primary target cell of the PRRS virus, which destroys the ...