We finally get an admission that tightly packed pigs in
insanitary conditions get more circovirus.
The writer could have told
them that, and did, years ago.
But the
veterinarians insisted that copious expensive antibiotics to control
co-infections were the way to go.
So, we got rich
vets, sick pigs and antibiotic resistant disease leaving the farms and entering
the hospitals, kept quiet by multiple cover-ups.
The dam is finally bursting.
It is, perhaps, the biggest scandal of the twenty-first century.
Environment
vital in countering PMWS
11 November 2011
Malcolm Flanagan
Researchers at the Royal
Veterinary College (RVC) in the United Kingdom have discovered that farms with
the lowest incidence of post weaning multi-systemic syndrome (PMWS) had clean
enriched environments with the maximum amount of space possible for pigs. Professor
Dirk Werling of the RVC said ...