Porcine Health Management

Reports of biting midges are rare in the literature. The importance of parasitic
arthropods to pig production depends of the geographical location and the
production system used. The direct economic impact of biting midges on pig
production has not been studied

PRRSv is enlisted as a Notifiable Disease in Northern Ireland (The Diseases of
Animals –Northern Ireland- Order 1981) after it was first diagnosed in 1997. The
prevalence of infection in 2011 was 36.6% of the Northern Irish pig producers.
In April 2013, the main boar stud of the island, located in the Republic of Ireland, was
diagnosed with PRRSv infection. This stud was supplying semen to around 70% of
producers in the whole island.