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Farmscape for January 16, 2023 Full Interview 12:23 Listen The Associate Director of the Swine Health Information Center suggests difficulty containing the spread of a new strain of PRRS shows the importance of using diagnostics to identify the strain...

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Swine producers may be facing an emerging respiratory condition without really knowing about it. According to Dr. Michael Pierdon with Four-Star Veterinary Services in Pennsylvania, hemorrhagic tracheitis syndrome (HTS) is a clinical respiratory condition that has been...
Source: The Guradian Tackling African swine fever – which has led to death of more than 100m pigs since 2018 – has proved a tougher challenge than scientists first thought Tucked between motorways in the west of the city, the drab...
Making Sense of Opposing Research on African Swine Fever Virus Inactivation Temperatures By: Dr. Joe Crenshaw & Dr. Yanbin Shen With African swine fever virus (ASFV) concerns continuing to weigh heavily on the swine industry, at times it can be difficult...
"Life is hard.” - A Nursery Pig
ASFV infects swine white blood cells. Photo: PIADC. By Lindsay Gabbert, Research Scientist at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center. African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) continues to spread in parts of Europe,...
Source: FAO Overview Hazard: African swine fever (ASF) is a viral disease affecting pigs and wild boar with up to 100% case fatality rate. ASF reported administrative areas since August 2018: China: Anhui, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Guizhou,...
Iowa State University veterinarians have taken on the role of gumshoe detectives as they investigate how an aggressive bacterial strain has spread among central Iowa pork production facilities. The bacteria, called Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP), has showed up in nine central...
Farmscape for June 8, 2021 Full Interview 13:17 Listen The Swine Health Information Center is advising pork producers of a second wave of a new highly pathogenic strain of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome. For the past six to eight...
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