Biosecurity
Results of African swine fever research in Vietnam are helping inform prevention and preparedness efforts for the U.S. pork industry while helping with response and recovery efforts for the ASF epidemic in Vietnam.
“The public doesn’t realize what these animals are capable of,” says wildlife trapper James Dean. “Unfortunately, you’re going to see more and more reports of people getting hurt in wild pig encounters.”
Recent conservation efforts have proven effective at controlling wild pig populations in the Southeastern U.S., according to new research.
Wild hog populations are continuing to spread and move north in the U.S. As one of the most destructive invasive animal species in the U.S., the significant increase in the wild hog population is a great concern.
Although foreign animal disease may be more likely to enter the country with the animals themselves, feed – including soybeans and corn – also raise concern in the livestock industry. Here are three ways to lessen risk.
A new outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) was discovered on a farm in Hong Kong.
When the sows stopped eating, the farm manager closed the feed line, preserved the feed in the bin, and called Scott Dee out to the farm. Little did Dee know that he was about to discover PRRS virus can live in feed.
A new study provides valuable insights into the diagnosis and prevalence of porcine circovirus type 3 in reproductive failure and surveillance cases submitted to the ISU-VDL as well as the synergism of PCV3.
For Anthony Novero, biosecurity has been a part of his life for as long as he can remember. His dad managed a research sow farm in the 1980s, where showering in was a way of life before other farms adopted the practice.
It’s time to raise user feeds within the Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection (AQI) program, NPPC says. The last fee increase was in 2015. The current fees no longer generate enough revenue to cover program costs.
Uncomplicating disease surveillance is a great opportunity for the swine industry. That’s why Hope Dohlman analyzed the level of detection of PRRSV material in wean-age piglets through the use of an absorbent mat.
Traceability is not a new concept, says National Pork Board chief veterinarian Dusty Oedekoven. He shares why its time for change, along with producers Joe Dykhuis and Alan Wulfekuhle and veterinarian Clayton Johnson.
Cross-contamination between samples is one of the most common pre-analytical errors and can cause misleading diagnostic results, says Casondra Snow, a first year DVM student at the University of Minnesota.
USDA APHIS recently updated several response plans and templates for the pork industry to utilize in the case of an African swine fever outbreak. Here’s a look at what’s new.
TELSVirus has the potential to support real-time surveillance of endemic and emergent viruses, while improving understanding of co-circulating viruses, their genetic diversity and how they impact swine production.
U.S. pork producers tasked NPPC to help update the existing swine traceability system. Swine producers, veterinarians, cull swine and breeding operators and show pig enthusiasts are asked to comment by Oct. 27.
Delegates voted on the first General Conference Committee that will serve as the federal advisory committee to USDA on swine health and the administration of US SHIP upon codification to a USDA program.
Experts are still trying to determine the origin of the African swine fever outbreak in Sweden, a minor pork exporter that holds only 1% of the swine herd in the European Union.
It costs a lot of money. It takes a lot of work. And if you do it perfectly, the result isn’t even visible at first. It’s no wonder it’s hard to convince people to do the right thing and follow biosecurity protocols.
Purdue University is developing a field test that can measure and predict the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in a wide range of wildlife and farm animals thanks to $2.7 million in federal funding from USDA’s APHIS.
Almost 34,000 pigs at 12 farms in the northern Italian region of Lombardy have been culled to counter the spread of African swine fever, a spokesperson for the region said on Wednesday.
A newly funded study led by Kimberly VanderWaal aims to create an “integrative data science” platform to predict the ability of PRRSV-2 variants to provoke an immune response and spread across farms.
SHIC’s research priority is to understand the potential breadth of tongue tips as a sample type for monitoring emerging diseases. Here’s why.
Narrowly focusing on a single pathogen during a diagnostic investigation is risky, experts agreed during a porcine sapovirus webinar. A narrow focus could result in missed detections of emerging or less common pathogens.
Duke-NUS Medical School announced the discovery of several previously unknown strains of swine influenza viruses that have been circulating unnoticed in Cambodian pig populations over the past 15 years.
A dead wild boar in Sweden has tested positive for African swine fever (ASF). This is the first time for the deadly ASF virus to rear its head in this country, Sweden’s Veterinary Institute said on Wednesday.
More than 1,000 pounds of pork were intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Louisville Port of Entry. Here’s what
In 2014, biosecurity changed at Eichelberger Farms in Wayland, Iowa, when an ugly four-letter word rocked the U.S. pork industry: PEDV.
Do you own and manage a small swine herd operation? Many things need addressed for the needs of the pigs as the weather gets colder. Here are a few tips to ensure optimal health, welfare and productivity.
Gut check: If you sent a new auditor your standard operating procedures (SOPs), would that match what your farm employees do? Clayton Johnson, DVM, shares four auditing keys to success.