Prevention and treatment of swine pox disease

Swine pox disease is a common virus in pigs, which is caused by a microbial infection of acne disease. Papules and blisters will occur in pigs after infection, which is a common viral infectious disease in summer. It is generally believed that the virus is caused by two viruses, one is vaccinia virus, the other is the real swine pox virus. Because they all produce similar symptoms. Our article is mainly about how to prevent and treat swine pox.

Symptoms of the disease

After being infected by vaccinia virus or swine pox virus, brown papules and blisters and pustules will appear on the living body, which occur less at the initial stage, and occur very much in the later stage, spread all over the body. Piglet infection occurs, starting with red blisters in the lower abdomen and hindlimb, and then spreading to other places, with scabs in the middle of the disease expanding and some pus flowing.

2. Virus characteristics

Pigs are the only people infected with swine pox virus, but vaccinia virus can also infect cattle, sheep, mammals and other mammals, and can also infect each other among these animals. The virus mainly infects young pigs and suckling pigs, the virus damage will have an incubation period of 5 to 7 fill, the susceptibility is not obvious, the incidence of young pigs is high, but the mortality rate is low, and the therapeutic effect is obvious. The virus is mainly transmitted by pigs and lice, as well as by insects, with little contact transmission. Pigs recovered from infection will have higher immunity.

III. Prevention and control methods

1. Clean

Maintain the hygiene of the breeding environment, often take medicine baths, wash the bodies of pigs, and then find that diseased pigs should be quarantined and treated immediately. To clean and disinfect the pigsty, but also pay attention to the elimination of insects, sprinkle chemicals or powder in the pigsty to prevent insect invasion, and pay attention to prevent mosquitoes from biting pigs in summer.

two。 Disinfection

At present, there is no obvious effective drug treatment for the disease. Antibiotics can be used to inhibit the disease, and then the sick pigs are cleaned with potassium permanganate solution and coated with disinfectants, potions such as iodophor. However, after the onset of swine pox will gain a high level of immunity, basically will not relapse.

3. Treatment

0.5% iodine solution can be injected into the pimples or 0.05 grams of virulent can be injected into the muscle according to the weight of a kilogram. It will improve after using it continuously for a few days. In addition, vitamin supplements and injection of a certain amount of normal saline are needed to increase resistance. In addition, you can use traditional Chinese medicine treatment, with 10g Erhua, 5g kudzu root, 5g cohosh, 10g forsythia, 5g Poria cocos, 5g licorice decoction water feeding several times, will be cured. Of course, there are many herbal formulations that can be used, and you can choose traditional Chinese medicine that is suitable for your condition.

Although swine pox is not a deadly disease, it will develop seriously if it is left alone, and it will not have serious consequences. Therefore, prevention can only be carried out by maintaining hygiene and deworming, and there are still many ways to treat it. The therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine is obvious.