in taxon disease has infectious agent swine disease porcine postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome https://github.com/monarch-initiative/mondo/issues/5294 postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome, porcine MESH:D053570 A worldwide emerging disease of weaned piglets first recognized in swine herds in western Canada in 1997. This syndrome is characterized by progressive weight loss, rapid (tachypnea) and difficult (dyspnea) breathing, and yellowing of skin. PMWS is caused by porcine circovirus infection, specifically type 2 or PCV-2. MONDO:0025506 postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome infectious disease, non-human animal viral infectious disease, non-human animal Porcine circovirus 2 Sus scrofa