- (a) The herd of origin of any pseudorabies or brucellosis reactors shall be immediately quarantined by handing the quarantine directly to the owner or by registered return receipt mail and shall be required to test within twenty-one (21) days of being quarantined.
- (b) All swine in herds adjacent to the herd of origin that are within a two-mile radius of the herd shall be quarantined.
- (c) All trace forward recipient herds and all source herds shall also be quarantined based on epidemiological potential of infection.
- (d) Each quarantined herd shall remain under quarantine until depopulated, or until negative test results are confirmed on all remaining animals in each herd.
- (e) Release tests for all adjacent herds shall be performed at least thirty (30) days after the reactors are removed from the herd of origin.
- (f) All pseudorabies reactor herds shall be required to castrate all boars remaining in the herd and shall have a maximum of one hundred eighty (180) days to sell out for slaughter or undergo a mandatory depopulation.
- (g) All swine brucellosis reactor herds shall be immediately depopulated.
- (h) Any farm of origin of any depopulated herd or sell-out as the result of these diseases shall be disinfected and must remain free of swine for a minimum of thirty (30) days or up to a maximum of six (6) months based on an epidemiological risk assessment before repopulating.