USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has updated its federal order regarding PED virus and other enteric coronaviruses.  Aphis will be focusing its funding on diagnostic testing.  They say this should allow the funds to last long enough to cover the winter season.  SDSU Extension Veterinarian Dr. Russ  Daly says the agency is on track and doing the right thing with this order.

 

Daly says producers reacted well in dealing with PED virus by enhancing their biosecurity on their operations.

 

He says not only did producers react well to the disease but so did federal and state officials and diagnostic labs.

 

The PED outbreak peaked between January and March of last year. In the last five months the weekly average of new confirmed positive premises dropped 90 percent compared to the average number of weekly cases during the diseases’ peak period.