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VIGO COUNTY, Ind. Just in time for the Easter ham season, a still-new killer virus is preying upon baby pigs in 25 states, so far, even killing the piglets younger than 10 days, too weak to fight off the intruder known as porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
Weve seen mad cow disease, but weve never seen nothing with the hogs yet, said Wally Pohlman, whose family has owned and operated Pohlmans Meat Processing in Vigo County, two miles north of Prairie Creek, the last 50 years.
The Pohlmans admitted to a notable reduction in the overall pig population, locally; getting your hands on a baby pig, he said, is nearly impossible nowadays.
Translation? An almost eminent pig shortage, possibly not able to be fully appreciated for another calendar year, will surely mean higher pork prices at the supermarket.
In addition to the already discernable difference in head-count among local pork producers the Pohlmans also owned up to the higher prices they must pass on to their own customers, a direct result, they claim, of this PED virus.
Platter bacon, for example, has increased $2 per-pound at the Pohlman meat shop the last year, Wally Pohlman admitted; whole hog sausage was $1.69 per-pound 12 months ago, compared to its current $2.09.
The deadly virus has been on the radar of pork producers roughly the last 12 months. Whats more, the bug is able to thrive in unsanitary conditions only exacerbated by these cold winter months, said one well-known local expert.
And so, in the winter time it makes it that much more difficult to get trucks clean, when they move from place to place, said Lindy Miller, Ph.D., the Purdue Extension Service educator in Greene County, Indiana.
So, it makes it really difficult and this particular disease is really different in sow units, because if it gets into sow units, and affects the sows, it particularly affects the baby piglets, Miller shared with News 10, confirming that the younger litters are much more vulnerable.
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A Manitoba biotech company says it is about three months away from producing an effective vaccine to combat a highly contagious and deadly virus that has killed millions of baby pigs in North America.
A Manitoba biotech company says it is about three months away from producing an effective vaccine to combat a highly contagious and deadly virus that has killed millions of baby pigs in North America.
Zyme Fast Inc., which has a lab just outside Winnipeg in the RM of Springfield, said the new vaccine will be a variation of a vaccine it developed about three years ago to successfully combat an Asian strain of the same virus. The virus is called porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PED for short.
"Not only is it effective in protecting piglets from contracting PED, it also cures those already infected," Zyme Fast president Terence Sellen said Tuesday. "To the best of our knowledge, the Zyme Fast technology is the only one used in China."
Sellen said the primary North American strain of the virus shares about 92 per cent of the characteristics of the Asian variety. So Zyme Fast only needs to modify the Asian vaccine to make it nearly 100 per cent effective against the North American strain, rather than having to develop a whole new vaccine from scratch.
"We use a proven vaccine research and design protocol that we've developed and used to produce the Asian PED vaccine as well as other effective vaccines and animal-health products that are delivered as powdered animal-feed supplements," Sellen said. "(So) barring any unexpected glitches, we're confident we can have an effective vaccine ready for approval in about three months."
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Researchers at the University of Miami may have made a modest breakthrough in the search for an HIV vaccination. A vaccine developed at the school has been shown to prevent mice from becoming infected with HIV. The findings were published in the February edition of the Journal of Virology.
Assistant professor of microbiology Geoffrey W. Stone says that the modest study has had some very dramatic results, but that it could take as long as a decade before its available for widespread human use. The next steps to test the vaccines effectiveness include trials on larger animals and clinical trials on people.
Traditionally, vaccines use a dead or weakened copy of a virus to trigger your immune system to make antibodies, creating specialized killer T-cells trained to attack a specific disease. It basically acts like a mafioso: Hey, immune system, this is a flu virus. This is how to kill it. Remember this the next time you see it.
But HIV attacks the immune systems white blood cells, particularly your helper T-cells, which are sometimes referred to as the generals of the immune system because they rally other immune cells and help create antibodies to fight disease. Its a Trojan horse, basically, getting past the bodys warning system and killing its immune system soldiers. Then it multiplies rapidly, and the body is left without an army to defend itself.
Without the helper T cells, the body cant create antibodies to fight the HIV virus. And as the virus kills off these helper T-cells and other valuable immune cells, the body loses the ability to fight any infections, leading to AIDS.
Researchers have been searching for a way to trigger the bodys immune response to HIV by programming the T-cells to respond and mount an attack, rather than getting slaughtered by the virus. University of Miami researchers attached a copy of the HIV virus to an immune cell using a protein (CD40). The hope is to enable the T-cells to see the HIV virus before it attacks them, rally the troops, and produce killer T cells, the bodys specialized virus hit-men, to wipe out the virus.
Stone tested this technique in mice. He found that the mice resisted infection, even they were exposed to 10 million viruses, according to the study.
More than 1.1 million people in the U.S. have HIV. Nearly one in six are unaware they have the infection.
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Image Caption: Transmission electron microscopy color image of a Pithovirus sibericum cross-section. This virion, dating back more than 30,000 years, is 1.5 m long and 0.5 m wide, which makes it the largest virus ever discovered. Credit: Julia Bartoli & Chantal Abergel, IGS, CNRS/AMU
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Giant viruses may seem like the latest creation in a Hollywood B movie production, but the recent discovery of a larger-than-life virus buried in ice is definitely no science-fiction tale. A husband-and-wife team from Aix-Marseille University in France have discovered a monster virus that has been buried in Siberias permafrost for the past 30,000 years.
Jean-Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel, who led the discovery, have named this new creature Pithovirus sibericum, inspired by the Greek word pithos for the large container used by ancient Greeks for food and wine. Were French, so we had to put wine in the story, joked Claverie.
While the discovery is significant for science, it is more so for health, as the virus has been found to still be infectious. However, this predator only preys on amoebae.
Still, the researchers warn that as Earths ice caps and glaciers melt around the world, more and more viruses, perhaps buried for thousands or millions of years, could reemerge and potentially become global human health risks.
The newly discovered P. sibericum is not only a giant virus it is the largest one ever found. At 1.5 micrometers long, it is about 50 percent larger than the previous record holder (Pandoraviruses), which were also discovered by Claverie and Abergel. The husband-and-wife team discovered their first giant virus in 2003, named Mimivirus.
While these viruses are by no means giant in the normal sense of the word, which may conjure up images of mammoths, dinosaurs and whales, they are loosely defined as giants because of the fact that they can be seen using a standard microscope, according to the team.
Once again, this group has opened our eyes to the enormous diversity that exists in giant viruses, Curtis Suttle, a virologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who was not involved in the work, told Natures Ed Yong.
Claveria and Abergels latest work, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based partly on a study from a few years earlier.
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