Pig disease surveillance
If you have found something new, unusual, severe, or unresponsive in relation to pig diseases, please contact the PEG veterinary lead Susanna Williamson (0208 0264990 or 03000 600018) or your nearest Veterinary Investigation Centre.
Please note: if you suspect a notifiable disease you must contact APHA immediately.
Explore the diagnoses made by the GB surveillance network through the interactive pig disease surveillance dashboard.
Pig Expert Group (PEG) veterinary lead
Susanna has been the PEG veterinary lead since April 2014. She leads the Defra-funded pig disease scanning surveillance project in APHA, and is a former President of the Pig Veterinary Society.
Susanna also represents APHA on the Pig Health and Welfare Council (PHWC) and the PHWC antimicrobials and surveillance subgroups.
PEG members
To support the PEG veterinary lead, the group has representation from Veterinary Investigation Officers from APHA, SRUC Veterinary Services and the SRUC-VS pig disease surveillance lead representative. In addition, there are APHA members on PEG providing expertise for specific disciplines (e.g. epidemiology, pathology, virology) and specific diseases (e.g. porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, swine influenza).
There is also representation from those involved in International Disease Monitoring, International Trade and Field Veterinary Epidemiology in APHA and from Defra policy.
PEG non-APHA members include representatives from:
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- Pig Health and Welfare Council
- Pig Veterinary Society
- National Pig Association
- AHDB Pork
- British Pig Association
- Academia
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
APHA Animal Disease Surveillance Reports
- APHA Veterinary Record monthly disease surveillance report.
- Quarterly GB Pig Disease Surveillance and Emerging Threats reports
- Brachyspira hyodysenteriae isolate MLST dashboard
- Pig disease surveillance dashboard
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome dashboard
Recent Interesting Cases
- African swine fever summary
- Porcine epidemic diarrhoea surveillance
- Nervous disease due to porcine sapelovirus
- Salmonella septicaemia following vaccine administration error
- Preweaned pigs with porcine circovirus 2-associated disease
- Enteric diagnoses in the fourth quarter of 2021
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome diagnoses
- Streptococcus suis serotypes in 2021
- Brachyspira hyodysenteriae surveillance findings
- Mycoplasma hyosynoviae detection in bursitis cases
- Apparent treatment failure in piglets with coccidiosis
- Porcine circovirus 2e genotype detected in Italy
- Porcine respirovirus 1 prevalence in Poland
- Swine vesicular cases of undetermined aetiology investigated by SHIC
Population information
- Livestock Demographic Data Group: pig population report - 2021
- Livestock Demographic Data Group: pig population report - 2019
- Livestock Demographic Data Group: pig population report - 2017
Enhanced Demographic Reports
- Pig Enhanced Demographics Report - 2017-2018
Disease information
Information notes and alerts on specific diseases or conditions:
- Swine Dysentery - January 2019, Updated April 2022
- Brachyspira hyodysenteriae isolate multilocus sequence type dashboard - June 2021
- Swine influenza diagnosis: Government-funded surveillance at APHA - November 2018, updated December 2020
- Bedding shortage information note - January 2018, revised September 2020
- Investigation of negated notifiable disease report cases in pigs - May 2020
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Small-scale pig producers and disease surveillance: key threats - January 2020
- African Swine Fever poster for pig keepers - November 2019
- Update on Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia outbreaks in preweaned pig - June 2019
- Control of Salmonella Typhimurium in pig herds - March 2019 - Revised December 2020
- Common disease conditions diagnosed in smallholder and pet pigs - November 2018
- Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea is a notifiable disease - November 2018
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome diagnosis in GB: 2016/17 - November 2018
- Streptococcus suis disease in pigs - October 2018
- Winter 2018: potential forage shortages in the UK - autumn/winter 2018/2019 - August 2018
- African Swine Fever images - June 2018.
See the news item about these images. - Bracken poisoning in pigs - February 2018
- Surveillance for non-statutory pig pathogens in culled wild boar - September 2017
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Congenital tremor associated with atypical porcine pestivirus - January 2017
- Coal tar toxicity - August 2016
- Emerging pig disease associated with Seneca Valley virus in the Americas - April 2016
- Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia - March 2016
Further information (external links)
- Swine fevers
- Defra notifiable diseases
- Pig Veterinary Society
- Code of practice for the welfare of pigs
- Porcine epidemic diarrhoea
GOV.UK - PEDV how to spot and report disease
AHDB Pork - PEDV for advice on:
Reporting suspect or confirmed PED case
Advice on sampling and testing suspect PED case
- Pig Health and Welfare Council Syndromic Surveillance Roundtable September 2016
- NADIS Information on pig health and welfare