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Pain is a sensory and emotional experience that has negative effects on animal welfare, directly affecting farm production items. There are many reasons why pigs can suffer from pain: routine farm management, such as tail-docking and castration, diseases, injuries and physiological events such as farrowing. Nowadays, pain measurement in farm animals is very complex, and it continues to be an important issue in veterinary and biomedical research.
Hanna Fränzl gives a concise overview about the immune system of pigs.
A practical example of a bio security-breach: When purchasing gilts a gap in the vaccination-scheme occurred: A batch of gilts was not vaccinated for Circovirus immediately after arrival in the quarantine but was delayed until 2 months later when thew hole herd was vaccinated.
Dr Lars Erik Larsen from the Danish National Veterinary Institute in Copenhagen, Dr Nicolas Rose from the French Agency for Food Safety in Ploufragan and Dr Gerard Wellenberg from the Dutch Animal Health Service in Deventer are the winners of this year's European Porcine Circovirus Research Award.
During the last fifty years or so, disease control in the pork industry has evolved mainly relying on antimicrobials, vaccines, elimination (depopulation, repopulation, eradication, modified early weaning), and/or regional control depending on the diseases of concern and resources available. Looking forward, it is clear that antimicrobial usage, under increasing scrutiny for both metaphylactic and therapeutic uses will decline, whereas the use of vaccines will likely rise.
Here you can read and download some of the posters presented during ESPHM 2018 in Barcelona
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