ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to define Mexico and the Caribbean as the insular area including the Greater, Lesser, and Leeward Antilles, the Lucayan Archipelago, including the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, and Bermuda. The role of domestic pigs in the rural economy in Mexico is very important. Rural families often raise 1 or more domestic pigs as a way to supplement the family’s income, because pigs can be readily sold locally. Wild pigs in Mexico and the Caribbean represent a significant threat to the dissemination and transmission of parasites and pathogens to humans, domestic livestock, and wildlife. Preliminary studies in the state of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico reported the presence of Pasteurella sp., Entamoeba sp., and Eimeria sp. in lung samples from 6 wild pigs. Most available information of wild pigs in Mexico and the Caribbean is related to their effects on native and endemic flora and fauna. Wild pigs are a notorious conservation problem on islands worldwide.
