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

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 

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...

Testing U.S. Pigs for Novel H1N1 Flu Turns up Potential Positives 

The Agriculture Department’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL), Ames, IA, is working to confirm a preliminary diagnosis of novel H1N1 pandemic flu virus in swine samples collected during the Minnesota State Fair between Aug. 26 and Sept. 1...

Minnesota’s Senators Lead Fight To Help Nation’s Pork Producers 

Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Al Franken (D-MN), along with 22 other U.S. senators, are asking the Agriculture Department for immediate aid for the pork industry....

RFD-TV Program Features Talks on Flu, Pork Economics 

The latest on the novel H1N1 flu and the economic forecast for the pork industry will be the main topics of an hour-long program Oct. 12 on RFD-TV...

Industry Groups Meet to Explore PRRS Eradication 

Producer and veterinary members of a pork industry task force conferred at the Leman Swine Conference last week in St. Paul, MN, to explore setting a course for possible eradication of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)...

Action Plan Developed For H1N1 Influenza 

State and federal animal health officials and pork producers have collaborated to produce an on-farm plan to keep the pork industry operating as normal in the event a U.S. pig herd is suspected or confirmed as being infected with the novel H1N1 Flu Outbreak Virus....

NPPC Stresses Message That U.S. Pork Is Safe 

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) told foreign officials last night that the U.S. pork industry and the U.S. government are gearing up for a return of the novel H1N1 flu, and that both groups would continue to relay the message that the flu virus is not transmitted through food (pork) and that pork is safe to eat...

Pork, Beef Export Sales Remain Sluggish in July 

Lingering effects of the H1N1 influenza virus continue to produce sales of U.S. pork and beef products that lag behind last year’s pace for the first six months of the year, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)...

Ag Lender Supports Livestock Care Standards 

Ag Credit, a major agricultural lender in Ohio, has endorsed Issue 2, a voter referendum to create an Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board...

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