Friday, January 9, 2009

How to spot Hog Cholera


Pigs affected with hog cholera appear weak, staggering and tend to sit like a dog.


Pigs showing erythema in different areas of the skin


Purplish discoloration of the skin, ears, abdominal part, legs

'Goose-stepping' in hog cholera

Running movement, a nervous sign in hog cholera

Button ulcers in the ceco-colic

Normal-sized spleen with infarcts at the margin (black spots)

Petechial hemorrhages in the mucusa of the urinary bladder

Petechial hemorrhages in the kidney (turkey-egg kidney)

Enlarged and hemorrhagic lymph nodes
Piglets born from a hog cholera-infected sow

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