Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 21 - Agriculture and Land Stewardship Department › Chapter 64 - Infectious and Contagious Diseases › Rule 21-64.153 - Pseudorabies Disease Program Areas

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
(1) Pseudorabies disease program areasas
			 declared by the Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship: all
			 counties in the state of Iowa.
(2)
			 All producers will permit sufficient swine in their herds to be tested at
			 program expense to determine the health status of the herd at intervals during
			 the course of the program as deemed necessary by the department.
The owner shall confine the swine to be tested in a suitable
				place and restrain them in a suitable manner so that the proper tests can be
				applied. If the owner refuses to confine and restrain the swine, after
				reasonable time the department may employ sufficient help to properly confine
				and restrain them and the expense of such help shall be paid by the
				owner
The swine tested shall be sufficient in number, and by method
				of selection, to quality for the surveillance program required to attain and
				maintain the program stages according to the most recent
				"State-Federal-Industry Program Standards" for pseudorabies eradication.
(3) No indemnities will be paid
			 for condemned animals.
(4) Any
			 person possessing swine is required to provide the name and address of the
			 owner or the owner's agent to a representative of the department.
(5) Beginning on October 1, 1999, all swine
			 located within three miles of a pseudorabies-infected herd are required to be
			 vaccinated with an approved pseudorabies vaccine within seven days of
			 notification by a regulatory official. One dose of vaccine shall be
			 administered to growing swine prior to 14 weeks of age or 100 pounds. Swine
			 over six months of age or greater than 200 pounds, used or intended to be used
			 for breeding, shall receive vaccine on a schedule designed to administer at
			 least four doses throughout a 12-month period. The department may require a
			 herd test to monitor both the pseudorabies status and the pseudorabies vaccine
			 status of the herd.
A waiver for this vaccination requirement may be issued by the
				state veterinarian, based on epidemiological investigation and risk
				determination. Herd testing, at a level determined by the pseudorabies
				epidemiologist, will be required as a condition for issuance of a vaccination
				waiver
In addition, beginning April 19, 2000, all swine located in a
				county designated as in Stage II of the national pseudorabies eradication
				program are required to be vaccinated with a modified-live differentiable
				vaccine. Breeding swine shall at a minimum receive quarterly vaccinations.
				Feeder swine shall at a minimum receive one vaccination administered when the
				swine reach 8 to 12 weeks of age or 100 pounds. These vaccination requirements
				shall be waived if:
a. The swine are
			 part of a herd's being continuously maintained as a qualified negative herd;
			 or
b. The swine are part of a herd
			 located within a county where both of the following conditions apply:
(1) The department has determined that the
			 county has a six-month history of 0 percent prevalence of pseudorabies
			 infection among all herds in the county, and
(2) All contiguous coimties have a 0 percent
			 prevalence of pseudorabies infection among herds in that county.