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Risk Assessment Tool Helps Fight PRRS

Nov 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Derald Holtkamp, DVM, and Jamie Melody, Iowa State University

It has been almost three decades since the PRRS virus was first recognized as the infectious agent responsible for reproductive failure in sows and severe...More

Health and Disease News

First Commercial Case of Novel H1N1 Virus In Swine Discovered in Indiana

Nov 3, 2009 11:31 AM

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is confirming the first U.S. case of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus has been found in a commercial swine herd. USDA said the pigs as well as the workers on an Indiana hog farm have all recovered and none of the swine are showing clinical signs of the virus ...

U.S. Pig Tests Positive For Novel H1N1 Flu Virus

Oct 19, 2009 2:59 PM

The Agriculture Department’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL), Ames, IA, has confirmed the presence of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a pig sample collected at the Minnesota State Fair submitted by the University of Minnesota. Additional samples are being tested...

Bacterial Diseases

Pinpointing the Principles of Biosecurity

Oct 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Scott Dee, DVM; Andrea Pitkin, DVM; and Satoshi Otake, DVM, University of Minnesota

In today's pork industry, perhaps no issue is as critical to protecting and maintaining the health and efficiency of swine herds as a scientifically based...

Building Functional Biosecurity Plans

Oct 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Rodney “Butch” Baker, DVM, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University

Biosecurity efforts cost considerable resources, both human and financial, and must be predicated on economic considerations. However, when we consider...

Disease Eradication

Now May be the Time For PRRS Eradication

Nov 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Through trial and error spanning more than 20 years, the pork industry has fought to get rid of the elusive porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome...

Risk Assessment Tool Helps Fight PRRS

Nov 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Derald Holtkamp, DVM, and Jamie Melody, Iowa State University

It has been almost three decades since the PRRS virus was first recognized as the infectious agent responsible for reproductive failure in sows and severe...

Disease Prevention

Swine Workers Should Get Priority For Flu Shots Just Like Santa Claus

Nov 19, 2009 10:42 PM

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is asking that pork industry workers be given at least equal billing with shopping mall St. Nicks on any priority list for who should receive the vaccine for the novel H1N1 flu virus...

Now May be the Time For PRRS Eradication

Nov 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Through trial and error spanning more than 20 years, the pork industry has fought to get rid of the elusive porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome...

Heredity/Congenital Diseases

Neonatal Scours Test Producers' Patience

Jul 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By John Waddell, DVM Sutton, NE

Across the industry, the issue of neonatal diarrhea does not raise concerns to the level of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome or circovirus....

Kansas State Tabbed to Coordinate National PRRS Research Program

Jun 4, 2008 10:50 AM

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a $4.8 million grant to support a comprehensive national program for controlling porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, led by Kansas State University (KSU)...

Parasites

Pinpointing the Principles of Biosecurity

Oct 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Scott Dee, DVM; Andrea Pitkin, DVM; and Satoshi Otake, DVM, University of Minnesota

In today's pork industry, perhaps no issue is as critical to protecting and maintaining the health and efficiency of swine herds as a scientifically based...

Building Functional Biosecurity Plans

Oct 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Rodney “Butch” Baker, DVM, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University

Biosecurity efforts cost considerable resources, both human and financial, and must be predicated on economic considerations. However, when we consider...

Health Regulations

Denmark Uses Deceitful Defense Of its Increased Use of Antibiotics

Oct 7, 2009 8:47 AM

Denmark has provided misleading information to the U.S. Congress to characterize the effects of its 1998 ban on certain antibiotics used in pork production, according to the National Pork Producers Council...

NPPC Approves of Food Safety Bill

Aug 3, 2009 12:14 PM

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) says the food safety legislation approved by the House of Representatives late last week is much improved over the version released earlier by the House Energy and Commerce Committee....

Viral Diseases

Michigan PRRS Project Underway

Nov 15, 2009 12:00 PM, Joe Vansickle

The two-county PRRS regional control project in Michigan involves Allegan and Ottawa counties, which border Lake Michigan and provide a good natural barrier...

Now May be the Time For PRRS Eradication

Nov 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Through trial and error spanning more than 20 years, the pork industry has fought to get rid of the elusive porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome...




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