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United Kingdom Confirms New Outbreak of FMD 

The United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) about 30 miles from the sites involved in an earlier outbreak...

PRRS Symposium Planned for Chicago 

The 2007 International PRRS Symposium: “PRRS and PRRS-Related Diseases: Prevention and Control Strategies,” is scheduled for Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at the downtown Marriott in Chicago...

Great Britain Reports FMD Outbreak 

The United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed that an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has occurred in a cattle herd in Surrey England, southwest of London...

Wisconsin Sounds ‘All Clear’ On Pseudorabies Front 

The “all-clear” signal has been given by state veterinarian Bob Ehlenfeldt in the Wisconsin pseudorabies (PRV) case...

No Foreign Animal Disease Found in Suspects Tested 

A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in a group of pigs delivered to a Minnesota processing plant from an Iowa livestock facility has turned out to be negative, according to a release from...

Building Biosecurity Boundaries 

The Pipestone (MN) Veterinary Clinic has designed its biosecurity programs around keeping out one disease porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome...

Audits Allow for Added Scrutiny 

Formulating a biosecurity audit strengthens farm security and identifies weak links that need correcting. To make a farm biosecurity program work, implement...

Biosecurity: Plugging the Holes 

Creating biosecurity rules people won't follow wastes time and paper. Veterinarians are great at creating biosecurity protocols in great detail covering...

Top 10 Ways to Boost Biosecurity 

There are 10 simple steps to bolstering biosecurity in a hog operation, according to Patrick Webb, DVM, National Pork Board director of swine health programs...

Measuring the Risk 

PRRS Risk Assessment Tool measures the level of risk that a PRRS outbreak will occur and provides a complete database featuring benchmarking and analysis....

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