North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 48.1 - State Board of Animal Health
Article 48.1-12 - Swine
Chapter 48.1-12-01 - Swine
Section 48.1-12-01-04 - Disease control

1. USDA-APHIS-VS establishes criteria for recognizing pseudorabies low-state area or prevalence areas.

2. A pseudorabies vaccination for all swine is prohibited unless approved in writing by the state veterinarian.

3. Breeding and feeder swine of unknown status must be quarantined until the swine pseudorabies status is determined by isolation and a pseudorabies test is conducted at the owner's expense, as well as a retest conducted in thirty to sixty days, at the owner's expense, or such swine must be shipped directly to slaughter.

4. A pseudorabies infected swine herd, as determined by a test approved by the board, must be quarantined and isolated from other susceptible animals on the farm, or other premises where the infected herd is located.

5. Reactor animals must be slaughtered. Then, the infected herd must be retested and receive two negative tests, the tests at least thirty days apart, with the first test occurring not sooner than thirty days after the last reactor animal is removed from the herd. Nursing piglets are not required to be tested.

6. As an alternative to a retest, the entire infected herd may be sent directly to slaughter.

7. The quarantine will be lifted only after the retests required pursuant to this subsection have occurred, or the entire infected herd has been shipped directly to slaughter. Before the quarantine is lifted, the premises of the infected herd must be cleaned and disinfected in a manner prescribed by the state veterinarian, or other agent of the board.

8. Slaughter sows and boars must receive pseudorabies testing at the first point of sale in the state, if necessary under a mandatory pseudorabies testing program instituted by the board.

9. Disposal of carcasses of swine infected with or testing positive for pseudorabies must be by a method prescribed by the state veterinarian.