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NADIS Knowledge Transfer - Acute Glassers Disease

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Clinical signs of an acute glassers disease outbreak on a farm will include:-

	Diarrhoea
	Pigs found dead
	Respiratory disease
	Recumbent pigs with skin discolouration and high fever
	None of these

The impact of acute Glassers Disease on the costs of running a 600 sow breeder feeder farms are:-

	Negligible
	No more then £2500
	No more then £5000
	£2500 plus medication
	£5000 plus medication

A pig that has died of Glassers Disease at post mortem examination will reveal which of the following:

	Adhesion of pleura and pericardium
	Congestion of carcass
	No gross pathological signs
	Fluid accumulation in body cavities
	All of these

In an outbreak of acute Glassers Disease, treatment should be supplied by:-

	Injecting clinically affected cases with appropriate antibiotics.
	Hospitalisation of affected pigs.
	Medication of water with appropriate antibiotics
	Medication of feed with appropriate antibiotics.
	All of these

To prevent introduction of new strains of Haemophilus parasuis into a herd the most reliable method is:-

	Treat incoming pigs with antibiotics
	Vaccinate incoming pigs
	Vaccinate the recipient herd
	Quarantine incoming pigs
	Operate a closed herd

Clinical signs of an acute glassers disease outbreak on a farm will include:-

	Applying a commercial vaccine containing the relevant strain to growing pigs.
	Applying permanent antibiotic medication.
	Applying an autogenous vaccine.
	Vaccination of sows
	Feeding back material from affected pigs to younger animals.

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