The farmers had flu-like symptoms a few days before the pigs got sick.
Tests by the National laboratories of the Food Safety Authority and the Institute for Health and Welfare confirmed the pandemic A/H1N1 virus as causal agent .
The farm is under voluntary restrictions agreed by the industry:
- for delivery of fattening pigs to other farms: two weeks of quarantine
- for delivery of breeding pigs to other farms: four weeks quarantine.
- pigs sent to slaughter must be free of clinical signs
Source: OIE
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