Poor sanitation risks a Strep contact

摘要

Have a hand-washing station readily available, wear gloves when handling sick and dead pigs, do not rub your fingers against your eyes, do not put equipment in your mouth. Those were the central recommendations from Dr Barbara Straw, holder of the Dave Ellis Swine Professorship at Michigan State University, USA, when addressing the 2006 Pork Academy about the risks of transferring infections by poor hygiene practices in piglet processing. She said that pig-unit workers too often break the rules suchas by holding a vaccination syringe in their mouth while picking up the next pig for treatment. When they did this they could also pick up an infection of Strep, suis.