Biosecurity
Hiep Vu grew up on his family’s swine farm in Vietnam. As he watched his parents increase their operation, he was struck by the positive results obtained when they vaccinated their pigs. Here’s why this could impact you.
Besides the actual depopulation itself, determining how to dispose of carcasses is also a difficult decision for pork producers.
If a FAD is diagnosed in the U.S., the industry will make tough decisions quickly to keep disease from spreading. If you happen to be where the disease is identified, chances are you won’t like some of those decisions.
Walking on pins and needles. That’s what U.S. pork producers are doing with no way to anticipate when or if a foreign animal disease (FAD) will enter the country.
From PPRS to PEDV, the health challenges facing swine farms today aren’t going away. We asked four veterinarians to share their perspectives, including what pork producers need to pay special attention to now.
Vietnam leaders say they are hopeful that they will successfully produce a vaccine to administer to pigs to fight African swine fever.
A case of African swine fever was detected on a farm containing around 1,500 animals in South Korea’s northeastern county of Hongcheon. Another case was discovered on a farm in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany,
A box declared as “earphones” arrived from Malaysia on May 4. But when U.S. Customs and Border Protection ag specialists opened it up, they discovered 26 vials containing live centipedes concealed in earphone cases.
Protecting herd health is a priority for pork producers, but despite scientific advances and improved biosecurity measures, disease prevention, as well as timely detection and mitigation, remain constant concerns.
Nepal has reported its first cases of African swine fever, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday.
A strep bacteria, commonly found in horses, was isolated from two cases in Ohio and Tennessee in 2019. In 2021, an Indiana system experienced increased sow death loss. SHIC funded a comparison of the outbreak isolates.
“The more we prepare, the quicker we can respond to an actual incident,” says Tyler Bauman, DVM, herd veterinarian for The Maschhoffs, LLC, about the possibility of a foreign animal disease outbreak.
A dead wild boar was discovered in Italy’s capital Rome and tested positive for African swine fever, the regional government said on Thursday.
At the end of 2020 and in 2021, the swine industry witnessed massive PRRS outbreaks in the Midwest caused by the novel porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) variant, L1C-1-4-4.
The Maschhoffs has investigated possible causes of piglet and growing pig scours, highlighting the need for a more holistic approach to address enteric challenges beyond a pathogen and antimicrobial treatment strategy.
A vaccine candidate for African swine fever passed an important safety test required for regulatory approval, moving the vaccine one step closer to commercial availability, say USDA scientists.
World-renowned ASF researcher Douglas Gladue of USDA’s ARS will be recognized by the Arthur S. Flemming Commission for his outstanding service in the field of science.
Experts say Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) will impact Australia’s pork supply as there are now 30 infected piggeries in New South Wales experiencing production losses of up to 80%.
Bhutan reported an outbreak of African swine fever on a pig farm near the border with India, the World Organization for Animal Health said.
Genvax Technologies is developing a self-amplifying messenger RNA vaccine for African swine fever in collaboration with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Services Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
Mangled mammal meat might have been the logical outcome that most superhero fans pictured when Batman took on Superman, but the potential outcome this bat meat posed to mortals was much more real, CBP reports.
Rumors of catastrophic PRRS outbreaks continue to shake the pork industry. One farmer told AgriTalk’s Chip Flory that he moved 1,500 pigs in and two-thirds of them were dead within a week due to the PRRS virus.
Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, IIAD have received $668,166 in funding to address animal disease outbreak response and mitigation.
Probiotics may not be as beneficial for animal and human health as people think, according to recently published research at Kansas State University. Here’s why.
Australian health authorities have detected Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in feral hogs in the Northern Territory.
The labor bottleneck isn’t improving for the U.S. pork industry. As pork prices continue to rise, Nick Giordano, NPPC vice president and counsel for global government affairs, said the solution is simple.
Why are researchers working on a finding an applicable U.S. case definition for porcine circovirus 3?
An unknown virus moved through David Refalo’s sow herd in New South Wales, Australia, last Christmas. He had 30 piglets die out of 170 total piglets. Tests showed nothing.
The U.S. has the necessary components for Japanese encephalitis virus transmission – competent insect vectors and susceptible vertebrate maintenance and amplifying hosts. Here’s what you need to know.
Around Thanksgiving, outbreaks of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 15 began popping up in the upper Midwest, resulting in a number of finisher sites experiencing respiratory disease with high mortality.