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Show Intestinal Disease Hits Numerous Swine Herds Thousands of pigs in major swlne-producing swlne-producing states have been stricken with an intestinal disease regarded as the most serious of its kind ever seen in the U.S. The American veterinary medical association reported that transmissible transmis-sible gastroenteritis has wiped out the entire pig crop on some farms. No swine-raising farm can consider Itself completely safe from the disease, dis-ease, the AVMA warned. Symptoms are severe scouring, vomiting, and dehydration. There is rapid loss of flesh in spite of the fact that affected pigs continue to nurse until they die. At present, no drug can be recommended recom-mended as a standard treatment fbr this infection. Only possible means of control is to keep healthy breeding breed-ing stock and healthy litters completely com-pletely out of contact with sick animals ani-mals and away from houses and grounds where outbreaks have occurred. |
