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Week of 25-Jun-2025Photo of the week

A lactating sow is found with widespread raised rhomboid lesions on the skin. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Week of 18-Jun-2025Photo of the week

This sow had poor body condition, was anaemic and was found dead in the pen. The stomach had a dark black content inside. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Week of 11-Jun-2025Photo of the week

There is bloody diarrhoea and mortality in 3 days old piglets. The small intestine of post-mortemed piglets is dark red, haemorrhagic and filled with bloody fluid. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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Week of 04-Jun-2025Photo of the week

There is profuse yellowish scour, ill thrift and high mortality during the first 72 hours of life. What is the most likely cause of this condition?

Week of 28-May-2025Photo of the week

An outbreak of sudden deaths and coughing is detected in 10 weeks old pigs. Post-mortem examination detects necrotizing pneumonia with fibrinopurulent exudate of the peritoneal and thoracic cavities. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Week of 21-May-2025Photo of the week

There is an outbreak of sudden deaths of 6 weeks old pigs. At post-mortem examination the pericardial sac is distended with straw-coloured fluid that contains fibrin strands. The heart has areas of necrosis. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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Week of 14-May-2025Photo of the week

The whole litter of piglets is trembling and shacking. What is the cause of this condition?

Week of 07-May-2025Photo of the week

Several weaner pigs show clinical signs of diarrhoea and loss of body weight from the age of 8 weeks. At post-mortem examination, there is mucohaemorrhagic diarrhoea and enlargement of the Peyer patches in the intestinal lining. What is the cause?

Week of 30-Apr-2025Photo of the week

Bulging irregular masses detected in the oral mucosa of the lower lip in a 2 weeks old piglet. What is the most likely cause of this condition?

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Week of 23-Apr-2025Photo of the week

Twenty gilts are found dead in the same building with cyanosis of the lower parts of the body and salivation. What is the cause of dead?

Week of 16-Apr-2025Photo of the week

Cranioventral lung consolidation is detected at post-mortem examination of the lungs of pigs with persistent coughing associated with lack of appetite. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Week of 09-Apr-2025Photo of the week

There is an increase of sudden death mortality in growing and finishing pigs. Post-mortemed pigs have the loops of gut distended with gas, have a deep purple colour and filled with heavily blood stained liquid. What is the most likely cause of this lesion

Week of 02-Apr-2025Photo of the week

Dead pigs with cyanotic ears and lower and distal parts of the body are found in one room of a flat deck accommodation. Some pigs are alive but dope. What is the cause of this condition?

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Which virus typically has a longer infectious period in piglets?

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