Sunday, May 3, 2009
Swine influenza / flu - Treatment - In swine
Posted by Next Generation Database on 1:59 PM in Swine Flu | Comments : 0
As swine influenza is not usually fatal to pigs, little treatment is required; instead veterinary efforts are focused on preventing the spread of the virus throughout the farm, or to other farms. and animal management techniques are most important in these efforts. The modern pork industry also uses antibiotic, which although they have no effect against the influenza virus, do help prevent bacterial pneumonia and other secondary infections in influenza-weakened herds.
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