A new swine disease similar to foot-and-mouth disease breaks into Europe

Published 2023년 1월 20일

Tridge summary

The UK has confirmed the presence of the Seneca Valley virus on several farms, marking the first detection of this virus in Europe. The virus, which was discovered in 2002 and has been proposed for human tumor treatment, causes symptoms similar to foot-and-mouth disease in pigs. The clinical signs include lesions that evolve into vesicles and ulcers, and can lead to piglet mortality and diarrhea. The virus is most likely already in continental Europe, and there is concern for the potential for more cases to emerge. Any case of vesicular disease in pigs should be sampled and sent to a national reference laboratory to discover epidemiological factors associated with the virus.
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The UK has recently confirmed the presence of Seneca Valley virus on several farms. As explained by the country's authorities, "the five cases of vesicular disease in pigs identified on farms in England between June and September 2022 were the Seneca Valley virus." Senecavirus A (SVA) is the only member of the genus Senecavirus, within the family Picornaviridae. This virus was accidentally discovered in 2002 and its use as an oncolytic virus has been proposed to treat different tumors in humans. SVA had previously been found occasionally in lesions of pigs affected by so-called idiopathic vesicular disease in Canada in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Seneca Valley virus is not a World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) listed disease. However, the clinical signs resemble notifiable vesicular diseases, particularly foot-and-mouth disease. FIRST DETECTION OF THE DISEASE IN EUROPEAN TERRITORY In order to learn first-hand everything related to the detection of this disease in the ...

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