Alberta’s chief provincial veterinarian has confirmed a sample from the surveillance program tested positive for porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED).
The Jan. 27 announcement indicates there are no new cases of PED in Alberta and no positive test results from the unnamed hog farm.
The random test sample was taken from a truck wash. The positive sample was found in a bag used to store the trucker’s boots.
There is no human health risk, according to the announcement.
In 2019, four cases of PED were confirmed in Alberta.
The first PED case in Canada was in 2014 in Ontario with others since in Manitoba, Quebec and P.E.I.
