Respectfully, as I think you know where I'm coming from and I''m not so sure that in the end you wouldn't rather prefer that it would have been thus. How big a problem such as that wild card passing the sentries been if what you still had was those 120 or however many sows it was up in Virginia and that was the whole and sum of your involvement in the pig business? With thousands more like you all over the country, as nox alludes to? There would have been no reason for his sorry a$$ to have been on your place.
The entirety of this run of sophisticated diseases and complexes that go with them are things that circulated and re-circulated through the swine production universe BEFORE we had multiple sites segregated phased rearing and production. Probably as variants, as TGE might be to PED-V, I'm quite certain that if some one had the impetus, resources and, of course, clearance and permission to run around the country and collect up old preserved blood samples, tissue samples and mabye most improtantly those numerous anti-serums that were so valuable to producers in the middle of the last century they would find anitbodies or closely related antibodies to nearly every crisis malady that has besieged the shining miracle that is modern day, integrated (sh!T..just barely integrated....your umbrella holders have assured that it has gone long, long past the rather hard to acheive limits of the Packers and Stickyards Act...if it's not technically propreitary I'd be shocked to death...but then who could get at those documents?...about with as much luck as financial regulators had at gettting at Goldman Sachs and Countrywide stuff,even after they were out of business) momocultural, "be sure to cook it slow" cardboard....errr...pork industry.
