Friday, 4 December 2015

PRO/AH/EDR> Novel pestivirus, swine - USA: (KS) research

Other Animal Disease -- United States
Researchers at Kansas State University's [KSU] Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have discovered a virus that's been a real pest for pigs and hope the diagnostic tests they've developed to detect the virus are a step toward understanding the disease.
The researchers identified the virus as a member of the aptly name pestivirus family. A sample submitted to the lab by a veterinarian in North Carolina came from a swine herd where uncontrollable shaking, or intention tremors, was observed and

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