[jb6]

Something else I should add to this conversation: friends of mine who either grew up on hog farms or were animal husbandry majors all told me the same thing: pigs get Crohns, a lot. The cure? Mass antibiotic treatment for a week and all is good.

[Carry_Okie]

When you consider the amount of suffering people undergo with that disease and how easy the therapy would be, it's pretty disgusting. It reminds me of H. pylori and peptic ulcers.

So much for the FDA and USDA keeping us all safe.

[redgolum]

It is called Scours (sp?). It more similar to dysentery than to Crohn's, but you are right about the treatment.

Typically comes from a sick hog or an outside animal exposing younger pigs. It can wipe out whole herds in confinement buildings. We didn't have all that much trouble with it, but did have to give antibiotics for it every so often.