hog cholera

Right now, an unidentified disease has been killing pigs in some part of the Philippines right now, and the government suspects it's either "hog cholera or ASF."

As DA officials await test results, they are hoping that the cause is actually hog cholera and not ASF, CNA cited a MECO official as saying.

While ASF is the most prominent disease of the hog industry at the moment, other possible hog diseases include Japanese hog cholera, foot and mouth disease, hepatitis E virus, and encephalitis.

Raisers fear the disease because there is still no approved vaccine for ASF, unlike hog cholera. Experts in the United States said it would take 10 to 20 years to develop the ASF vaccine.

also known as hog cholera, with a number of outbreaks having been

Summary: New Delhi [India], Dec 4 (NewsVoir): Panav Bio-Tech, a leading company in the animal healthcare, is now offering a vaccine for classical swine fever or Hog Cholera in India.

All these are responsible in causing and spreading serious diseases such as plague, murine typhus, rickettsial pox, salmonellosis, rat bite fever, leptospirosis, trichinosis, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, typhoid, dysentery, hog cholera, aspergillosis, encephalitis, pseudo tuberculosis, avian tuberculosis, toxoplasmosis, Japanese encephalitis, filariasis, yellow fever and dengue fever and malaria, among other ailments.

Tabanids are known to be mechanical vectors of several animal diseases such as equine infectious anemia virus, bovine leukemia virus, hog cholera virus, anaplasmosis, anthrax, tularemia, and several other serious diseases of veterinary concern (Krinsky 1976; Foil 1989).