Hog Health
U.S. Customs and Border Protection ag specialists and a Beagle K-9 at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport seized and destroyed a cooked pig found in checked luggage at the busiest airport in the world.
The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA), the nation’s animal health forum for over a century, is holding its 122nd annual meeting in Kansas City, Mo., from Oct. 18-24.
Hearing the words porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) can strike fear into the minds of both producers and veterinarians. Learn more about this and other endemic diseases.
The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) assists U.S. producers with health issues they may experience on their farms. The first step is detection, says Dr. Lisa Becton, associate director of SHIC.
A case of African swine fever has been confirmed in pigs in east Germany. The case was confirmed on a breeding operation in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Boehringer Ingelheim and the University of Minnesota launched the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Eradication Roadmap to equip veterinarians and producers with a resource to inform, prepare and guide them through eradication.
Although influenza and E.coli have been a hot topic of conversation in many circles lately, these four veterinarians agree on the virus that continues to cause the greatest problems for pigs in their area.
If you could eradicate one challenge in the pork industry today, what would it be? Health quickly comes to mind for many producers when asked this question, but not all.
A competitive review is on for proposals vying for funding in a $1-million research program to enhance U.S. prevention, preparedness and response capabilities for Japanese encephalitis virus, an emerging disease risk.
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.
If you want to be a profitable pork producer, it starts with healthy pigs. The importance of minimizing stress cannot be overemphasized, explained Mike Tokach, professor at Kansas State University.
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.
If the worst-case scenario happens and animals need to be depopulated in an effort to contain and eradicate a disease, how would the pork industry respond? Here’s a look at the difficult discussion around depopulation.
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 impact of depopulation incidents on employee mental health can’t be discussed enough, says veterinarian Randy Jones.
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.
A therapeutic trial using innovative CRISPR-based technologies to target African swine fever in pigs has successfully been completed.
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.
Dr. Matt Allerson uses science to solve health problems for pork producers and was recognized as the 2024 Leman Science in Practice Award Winner.
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.
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.
Colombia has restricted the import of beef and beef products coming from U.S. states where dairy cows have tested positive for H5N1 as of April 15, according to USDA.