date:Apr 28, 2014
her, of nearly 15,000 samples tested for PEDv about 32 percent have been positive.
The virus acts like a lawn mower on the villi in a pig's intestines, which are the tiny projections that aid digestion, said Tony Forshey, chief of animal health at the Ohio Department of Agriculture. With their villi gone, the piglets cannot absorb nutrients from food or water, contract diarrhea and die from dehydration.
So far, no vaccine has been able to completely protect pigs from the disease. An Iowa compa