America hunts for source of deadly pig virus

[Pat Gardiner]

Pat's Note: For those of us that believe that the majority of recent
animal outbreaks in Britain resulted from the reckless legal
importation of infected germplasm, ie live beasts, semen or embryos,
Reuters has just delivered some pretty compelling material on the
likelihood that the outbreaks of PEDV in the USA came from allegedly
PEDV clean Canada. If they were not from Canada, from where?

It's all there: the increasing numbers of live movements over borders,
the lack of testing, the mention of BSE, Swine Flu, even the original
discovery of PEDV in Britain.

Now a bad situation is developing quickly and the frantic search for
the source under way.

Many will remember the writer's dash to the USA to warn them of the
gathering storm and his allegations to the House of Commons and OLAF,
the serious Fraud Squad of the EU, over test faking in Britain by
senior veterinary civil servants during an epidemic.

The USA, and others have problems too, but it was Britain's pompous
unchecked veterinary incompetents that led the race to the bottom.

Anyway, much of the story, and a thirteen year campaign for veterinary
reform has been faithfully tracked on the newsgroup
uk.business.agriculture and on the blog.

Here is a brilliant Reuters report on the latest veterinary disaster.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/28/us-swine-virus-insight-idUSBRE94R0VD20130528

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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release and independently audit the results of testing British pigs
for MRSA, C.Diff and Hepatitis E now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com and http://animal-epidemics.blogspot.com/