Pat's Note: This is an interesting piece. 

Unusually the PCV2 vaccine is funded by government dictat by a levy on
pig farmers and slaughters.

Even the piggy vets admit that the vaccine at best  is no panacea and
most of the favourable comment comes from the suppliers.

So it is effectively Defra pressuring farmers to vaccinate with
approved but  unproven vaccines as an experiment.

That might be a good policy, but  it isn't the farmers making the
decisions and BPEX is pressing for more money before they have the
results. BPEX do not have a good record of making good decisions and
no longer represent Welsh and Scottish farmers as a result.

Bearing in mind the mess that Defra and irs predecessor MAFF have made
of pig health in the UK over the last decade, this needs close
watching.

http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=29&storycode=20372

Overwhelming response to PCV2 vaccine project
Livestock | 1 August, 2008 

THERE has been an overwhelming response to the British Pig Executive’s
PCV2 vaccine project, in which pig producers are been given vouchers
to purchase the vaccine if they then provide information on its
efficacy.

Over 391 units have applied, covering 250,000 sows, in the two months
since the project was launched.

But Bpex is warning it has £1.5 million to fund the project and that
will only last eight or nine months at the current scale of uptake.

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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
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