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The Ministry of Agriculture announced the criteria for determining sick pigs

Published: 2024-11-10 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/10, Recently, the Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and the China Veterinary Drug Control Institute jointly compiled the Manual for Safe Use of Inactivated Vaccine for Highly Pathogenic Porcine Blue Ear Disease, published the quality standards for inactivated vaccine for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, and published the criteria for determining the infected pigs. According to the manual, the criteria for judging the sick pig are: temperature above 41℃ for at least 3 days; respiratory symptoms such as decreased mental appetite, conjunctivitis, cough and asthma; gross autopsy, flaky consolidation of lung apex or heart lobe. The above three conditions apply, namely

Recently, the Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and the China Veterinary Drug Control Institute jointly compiled the Manual for Safe Use of Inactivated Vaccine for Highly Pathogenic Porcine Blue Ear Disease, published the quality standards for inactivated vaccine for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, and published the criteria for determining the infected pigs.

According to the manual, the criteria for judging the sick pig are: temperature above 41℃ for at least 3 days; respiratory symptoms such as decreased mental appetite, conjunctivitis, cough and asthma; gross autopsy, flaky consolidation of lung apex or heart lobe. If the above three conditions are met, it can be judged as an illness.

The inactivated vaccine is milky white emulsion in appearance and water-in-oil type. Take a clean pipette and drip a small amount of vaccine into cold water. Except for the first drop, it shall not spread. Its quality can be checked by the following methods:

1. Use a 1 ml pipette (inner diameter of the lower opening is 1.2 mm, inner diameter of the upper opening is 2.7 mm) to suck 1 ml of vaccine at about 25℃, make it flow out naturally vertically, and record the time required for outflow of 0.4 ml, which should be within 8 seconds.

2. 5 pigs of 3-4 weeks old with PRRSV antigen and antibody negative were injected intramuscularly with 4 ml vaccine at the back of each ear. After observation for 21 days, there should be no local and systemic adverse reactions caused by vaccine.

3. Ten pigs of 3-6 weeks old with PRRSV antigen and antibody negative were used, 5 of them were injected intramuscularly with 2 ml vaccine at the back of ears, and the other 5 were used as controls. After 28 days, all pigs were injected intramuscularly with 3 ml of virulent PRRSV NVDC-JXA1 strain (containing 105 TCID50) in the posterior part of their pleura ears. Temperature was measured daily and observed for 21 days. All 5 control pigs should be sick and at least 2 should die; at least 4 vaccinated pigs should be alive.

The manual states that single-dose, single-dose repeat and overdose vaccinations of piglets are safe and should only be used under veterinary guidance. After vaccination, piglets have good mental state and appetite, and generally no adverse reactions are observed at the injection site and the whole body; vaccinated sows will not cause abortion, and a few sows may have transient appetite loss, which can be recovered within 1-2 days.

 
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