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Week of 27-Aug-2025
Some finishing pigs are found with swelling of the tails with blood. What is the cause of it?

Week of 20-Aug-2025
Some gilts and sows have died suddenly during the last few months with no apparent clinical signs of disease. There is haemoperitoneum and splecnomegalia at post-mortem examination. What is the cause of mortality?

Week of 13-Aug-2025
A carcass is split in half and an abscess is found in the spine and burst. What is the cause of this lesion?

Week of 06-Aug-2025
Many sows have abscesses in the side of the neck. What is the cause of this lesion?

Week of 30-Jul-2025
What lesion is seen in this image?

Week of 23-Jul-2025
A sow is found with skin lacerations in the pen. What is the cause of this condition?

Week of 16-Jul-2025
A number of finishing pigs have ulcerative pododermatitis on the lateral side of their feet which causes lameness. What is the cause of this lesion?

Week of 09-Jul-2025
There is an increase of ill thrift and laboured abdominal breathing in 6 to 8 weeks old weaner pigs. There is poor response to antimicrobial treatment. Mortality has increased from 1.5% to 6%. Post-mortemed pigs had interstitial pneumonia. What is it?

Week of 02-Jul-2025
Necrotic hepatitis with hepatic parenchyma infiltrated with gas bubbles is detected in a sudden dead sow during post-mortem examination. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Week of 25-Jun-2025
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-2025
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-2025
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?

Week of 04-Jun-2025
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-2025
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-2025
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?

Week of 14-May-2025
The whole litter of piglets is trembling and shacking. What is the cause of this condition?

Week of 07-May-2025
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-2025
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?

Week of 23-Apr-2025
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-2025
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-2025
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-2025
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?

Week of 26-Mar-2025
Some pigs have swollen ears and walk with their heads tilted to one side. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Week of 19-Mar-2025
This pig had a good body condition, was anaemic and died suddenly. The stomach had a dark black content inside.

Week of 12-Mar-2025
This pig had a good body condition, was anaemic and died suddenly. The intestinal content is dark black. What is the most likely cause?

Week of 05-Mar-2025
Necrotic lesions in the feet of a weaner pig. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Week of 26-Feb-2025
This sow has reddening of skin and considerable pain. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?