SEPTEMBER  2014        Homework 4

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The USDA has some useful publications regarding animal health. Next go to this website:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/

Check the July 2002 issue.

      1. Do indoor reared pigs benefit from more type 1 or more type 2 immunity?

Check the January 2009 issue.

      2.       Can humans give influenza to swine?

Go to the issue--August 2001.

      3. What drug caused piglets to grow faster during the first 18 days of life?

      4. What is the four poster device?

      5. Check out the article on animal behavior.  Why should beef cattle in a feedlot be                       fed in the evening?

Check the April 2006 issue.

      6. What is the new anti-mastitis weapon?

Check the October 2013 issue for info about OPP and a new test for TB in cattle.

Check the October 2014 issue.

7.What new deworming agent has been discovered and studied for use in swine?

Check out Pork@Purdue.

      7. Are pigs fed "Paylean" more or less difficult to handle?

Next, go to this website

http://www.pighealth.com/ileitis.htm

      8.  Is Lawsonia gram negative or gram positive?

      9. In what year were Koch's postulates fulfilled concerning Lawsonia?

More about Lawsonia

    10.  What organism has now been identified as causing "wet-tail" in hamsters? 

Lawsonia

    11.  Where was Lawsonia infection reported in a group of  foals?  Oklahoma

Go back to the main page  www.pighealth.com

    12. What is "Stremodo" and what does it do?

Check out the links to disease and management quizzes.  You do not have to take these quizzes

You should be able to find the next answers on the pighealth website, as well.

    13.  What is PMWS?

    14.  What is circovirus?

    15.  What is PDNS?

    16.  What is the greatest concern about PDNS with respect to differential diagnosis?

    17.  Here is the link to Pig Imporvement Company.  On the left you will find links to                      technical manuals for different types of swine.

    18.  Here is a link to information about PEDV, a newer disease in the USA.

    19.  Here is the link to the Swine Medicine Center at Iowa State University.

    20.  Here is a link to several important swine diseases on the AASP website.