This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
This week, we are sharing a report regarding the prevalence of Porcine Deltacoronavirus and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus in swine herds from Ontario.
Key Points
- Cumulative incidence of PED and PDCoV in Canada is decreasing according to data coming from the industry for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016.
- PED showed a cyclical pattern when looking at the number of farms infected. However, PDCoV showed a more erratic pattern with no clear trends.
- Industry driven disease control programs provide useful information to understand temporal evolution and disease patterns.
The primary goal of this study was to estimate herd-level incidence and prevalence measures for PEDV and PDCoV in swine herds in Ontario (Canada) between January 2014 and December 2016, based on industry data (Ontario Swine Health Advisory Board (OSHAB) Disease Control Program (DCP)).
The full paper was published in the Transboundary and Emerging Diseases journal.
Herd-level incidence risk and rate of two novel porcine coronaviruses (PEDV and PDCoV) in Ontario swine herds between 2014 and 2016, and estimated prevalence of positive cases at the end of each year based on data provided in the Ontario Swine Health Advisory Board (OSHAB) Disease Control Program (DCP) database (average number of herds for 2014–2016 = 1093).
PED showed a cyclical pattern over the three years of the study while PDCoV showed a more erratic pattern. Incidence decreased over time between 2014 and 2016 in both, PED and PDCoV.
You can also read our report on the prevalence of PDCoV in the USA.