"What disease are they talking about? Just wondered. Do wild hogs carry soemthing we should know about. After all I read about people shooting them all the time and eating them."

They can carry pseudorabies, erysipelas (something like arthritis), Bang's disease, hog cholera and a host ofother diseases.Never heard of anyone catching anything from eating or handling wild hogs.I do wear good rubber gloves when dressing them.Do nothandle the reproductive organs or pig embryos.

There is a guy north of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge who used to trap hogs, pen them up and fatten them for market. He had hundreds of wild hogs penned up. The OK Agriculture folks came in and found themdiseased and told him to destroy them. Theguy just quit feeding them and many starved to death. Some of the neighborslet the survivors out.

Wild hogs in large numbers would make any outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in livestock very hard to control.