Amendments to Pseudorabies
Eradication Standards
By Dr. Thomas J. Hagerty
Minnesota Board of Animal Health

These Program Standards were adopted for the eradication of pseudorabies virus from all domestic swine in the United States. These are the minimum standards adopted by the United States Animal Health Association as amended in October 1993 and approved by the Veterinary Services division of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The following list highlights changes adopted in this version of the Program Standards. Page numbers where these changes occur follow each entry in parentheses. Copies of the Program Standards are available from USDA-APHIS-VS Swine Health Staff or from Livestock Conservation Institute.

1. Modifications and additions to the following definitions:

Approved feeder-pig market (3)

Official Pseudorabies serologic test (to allow for a differential test) (5), and

Surveillance index (9)

2. Addition of a definition for official random-sample test (95/20)(6)

3. Name change, from Oversight Committee to Swine Health Committee (9)

4. In Part II Administrative Procedures, additions to H. Other movements (12)

5. In Part III Program Stages and Requirements,

Amendments to Stage III A.3. Surveillance (17-18)

An addition to Stage III D. Duration of status (19)

Deletions from Stage IV E. 3. Feeder pigs (part of item C.1. and all of items 4 & 5)(21); Amendments to Stage V - Free B. 2. (21) and C. Duration of status (22)

6. In Part IV Subpart I - The Qualified Pseudorabies-Negative Herd, additions to A.3. (23) and D. (in the sections on Herds B and C) (25)

The minimum standards described in this publication do not preclude the adoption of more stringent standards by any geographic or political subdivision of the United States.