Pig disease surveillance
If you have found something new, unusual, severe, or unresponsive in relation to pig diseases, please contact the PEG veterinary lead 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
The PEG veterinary lead is Susanna Williamson (03000 600018).
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
PEG surveillance reports
PEG contributes interesting and unusual pig cases, highlights pig disease alerts or findings and provides focus articles relating to pigs for the APHA Veterinary Record monthly disease surveillance report. These are compiled together with contributions from other Species Expert groups.
Quarterly GB Pig Disease Surveillance and Emerging Threats reports are compiled by the PEG. They summarise investigations into threats and other surveillance issues to inform governments, the veterinary profession and livestock farming industries of potential new or re-emerging threats to pig health or changing trends among existing ones.
Recent Interesting Cases
GB pig disease quarterly report: disease surveillance and emerging threats – April-June 2020
- African Swine Fever summary update
- Staphylococcus sciuri in septicaemic finishers
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome diagnoses in 2020
- Swine dysentery diagnoses in GB reduced compared to 2019
- Lactational osteoporosis in young sows
- Classical swine fever in Japan
- PCV3 study in healthy sows and their piglets in Spain
GB pig disease quarterly report: disease surveillance and emerging threats – January-March 2020
- Summary update on African Swine Fever
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome 2019 diagnoses
- Ampicillin-resistant Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
- Early spring outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia
- Coal tar toxicity incident
- Haemorrhagic tracheitis syndrome investigations North America
GB pig disease quarterly report: disease surveillance and emerging threats – October-December 2019
- African Swine Fever in South East Asia and Europe
- Swine fevers ruled out in suspect report cases
- Pandemic H1N1 2009 and H1N2 influenza strains circulating
- Swine dysentery diagnostic trend reduces in last quarter of 2019
- Porcine circovirus 2 genotyping shows shift to PCV2d
- Novel circovirus species (PCV4) identified in pigs in China
GB pig disease quarterly report: disease surveillance and emerging threats – July - September 2019
- African Swine Fever in South East Asia and Europe
- Trueperella abortisuis abortion in a pig herd in Scotland
- Porcine sapelovirus-associated neurological disease in growers
- Extended season of Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia outbreaks
- Varied presentations of porcine circovirus 2-associated disease
- Streptococcus equi subsp. Zooepidemicus in North America
Pig dashboards
Population information
- 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:
- 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
- Swine Dysentery - January 2019
- 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
- Swine influenza diagnosis: Defra-funded surveillance at APHA - 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
GOV.UK-Guidance African swine fever
AHDB-Knowledge library African swine Fever - 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