Biosecurity
The Swine Health Information Center-funded Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) noted an increase in occurrence of a novel PRRSV variant in December 2023 and January 2024.
Cora Key says the health of pigs and people is always a top priority when she’s organizing national and regional pig shows across the country. NJSA is adding new biosecurity components into youth programming this year.
In 2009, Ohio State began studying influenza transmission at county fairs. In 2016, they started studying transmission at national shows. The results of the surveillance project have been interesting, says Clay Zwilling.
The first 10 days were hell, says Kyle Baade, a Nebraska pork producer. After that, if a visitor showed up, he says they would have no idea the farm had any issues. Here’s his PRRS story and how it changed his life.
As a new pig show season fires up in many parts of the country, the last thing anyone wants is to get left out of the fun of evaluating livestock and chasing banners because of a case of influenza.
Although the swine industry is small enough veterinarians will likely run into each other often at meetings, Jana Morgan believes there’s something special about the impact of intentional interaction. Here’s why.
Although the lessons learned are different for each stakeholder group, Yvette Johnson-Walker, DVM, says lessons are always learned when people come together for a foreign animal disease tabletop exercise. Here’s why.
Canadian Pork Council’s goal is to develop an ASFMeter, a portable and low-cost tool, for rapidly diagnosing African swine fever in the field.
APHIS bolsters animal health protections with more than $22 million in farm bill funding for research projects and vaccine bank.
Porcine deltacoronavirus emerged about a year after detection of PEDV. A study funded by the Swine Health Information Center is filling the gaps in current epidemiologic information regarding PDCoV post-introduction.
The detection of influenza A virus H5N1 in livestock highlights the potential for influenza viruses to infect different species and the necessity for monitoring of influenza-like illness and maintaining good biosecurity.
Our industry is diligent about collecting data — in management software systems, feeding systems, animal movement planning systems and more. How can we integrate this data better for practical analysis?
Eye-opening. Impactful. Urgent. Important. These are just a few ways pork producers described a recent exercise on FAD preparedness. For Jim McCoy, an Ohio show pig producer, the experience went one step further.
Brazil declared itself as free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination, and will request World Organization for Animal Health to recognize that status as it seeks to open more markets for its meat exports.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will raise the user fees for the Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection program effective Oct. 1, 2024. Here’s why this matters to you.
USDA-FSIS said it collected 30 samples from “states with dairy cattle herds that had tested positive for the H5N1 influenza virus at the time of sample collection.” No virus particles were found to be present.
Current outbreaks of African swine fever have resulted in billions of dollars in losses across the globe, heightening the need for the eradication of wild swine populations that can transmit foreign diseases, AFBF says.
With $2.6 million in new support to fight the deadly African swine fever virus, a Kansas State University researcher is armed with new ammunition to battle one of the biggest global threats to swine production.
The livestock industry needs a comprehensive, cohesive plan to address the virus. Producers, their employees and veterinarians need clear answers and support from U.S. agricultural leadership, moving forward.
A new diagnostic test can provide rapid results pen-side, a huge advantage over PCR and other tests which may take up to five days to return results, says Alveo Technologies, Inc., and NYtor B.V.
Ensuring the health and safety of our pigs is a top priority for every producer. While we often focus on biosecurity measures at sow farms, it’s just as crucial to implement strong protocols in wean-to-finish barns.
It’s not sharks, wolves, or bears that kill the most people—it’s wild pigs, and the numbers are trending up.
Defining the U.S. regions at greatest risk for JEV is an important step towards U.S. prevention and preparedness as well as allocation of efforts for surveillance.
South Dakota Dairy Producers encourages all dairy producers to closely monitor their herd and contact their herd veterinarian immediately if cattle appear symptomatic.
Knowing there are many methods for swine disease spread, the objective of a SHIC-funded study was to increase understanding around the risk of vehicles traveling to and from swine farms for disease transmission.
Is the U.S. pork industry prepared for a Japanese encephalitis virus outbreak? Here’s how a newly developed diagnostic test could help.
To understand the threat HPAI poses to domestic livestock species, and to inform pork producers on how to reduce the risk of infection on-farm, SHIC and AASV will host a webinar on influenza A viruses on April 19.
Of the eight accomplishments USDA APHIS recently acknowledged in their efforts to protect U.S. agriculture and natural resources in 2023, three specifically address the U.S. pork industry.
In January, SHIC issued a request for proposals inviting submissions to specifically address 11 research priorities in its 2024 Plan of Work. Research outcomes from the 43 projects funded will help producers, SHIC says.
Although Japanese encephalitis virus has never been detected in the U.S., experts are paying close attention to it as JEV poses an emerging transboundary threat to domestic sow herds susceptible to viral infection.