Where was PED first described?

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Where was PED first described?

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Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) was first described in the United Kingdom in 1971. Early reports noted an epidemic of severe, watery diarrhea in young piglets within British herds, marking PED as a distinct swine enteric disease. The causative agent was later identified as a coronavirus (PEDV), but the historical origin is the UK description from 1971. Subsequent major outbreaks occurred later, including in China in the 1980s and 1990s and a large wave in the United States starting in 2013, but those are events that followed the initial description in the UK.

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) was first described in the United Kingdom in 1971. Early reports noted an epidemic of severe, watery diarrhea in young piglets within British herds, marking PED as a distinct swine enteric disease. The causative agent was later identified as a coronavirus (PEDV), but the historical origin is the UK description from 1971. Subsequent major outbreaks occurred later, including in China in the 1980s and 1990s and a large wave in the United States starting in 2013, but those are events that followed the initial description in the UK.

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