A study aimed to evaluate various cleaning protocols to mitigate porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) spread from a contaminated trailer to the farm through foot traffic between these two areas. Efficacy was evaluated across protocols including 1) positive control (no cleaning), 2) dry clean – scrape and bake (TADD), 3) volume hose wash and disinfect, […]
Category Archives: Animal Health
For Comment: AVMA Depopulation Guidelines, Due Jan 30
Proposed updates to the AVMA Guidelines for the Depopulation of Animals are available for review and commenting by AVMA members. Comments must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Central Time on January 30, 2025. Draft AVMA Depopulation Guidelines (AVMA login required.) The AASV Pig Welfare Committee has reviewed the updates and drafted comments. These are available […]
For Comment: AVMA Depopulation Guidelines, Due Jan 30
Proposed updates to the AVMA Guidelines for the Depopulation of Animals are available for review and commenting by AVMA members. Comments must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Central Time on January 30, 2025. Draft AVMA Depopulation Guidelines (AVMA login required.) The AASV Pig Welfare Committee has reviewed the updates and is drafting comments. These will […]
Survey: Addressing Unmet Need Within the Animal and Veterinary Industries
The Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA is leading an initiative to identify holistic approaches to address opportunities and challenges in animal health and veterinary medicine. FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) recently released its Animal & Veterinary Innovation Agenda, providing plans to support actions that will further position the agency to work with stakeholders to advance […]
SHIC Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity: Economic and Epidemiologic Benefits of Market Haul Trailer Sanitation (Final Report)
A study funded by the Swine Health Information Center Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity Research Program, in partnership with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Pork Checkoff, aimed to understand how different levels of trailer washing impacts the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. The goals of the study were to determine the best practices that […]
2024 Highlights from SHIC Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring
The Swine Health Information Center recently renewed funding for the Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Reports through September 2025. Drs. Giovani Trevisan and Daniel Linhares, Iowa State University, lead the program which was initially funded by SHIC in 2017 and continues to focus on the analysis and reporting of collated veterinary diagnostic laboratory data to identify […]
U.S. Government Releases First National One Health Plan to Protect People, Animals, and Our Environment from Shared Health Threats
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Department of the Interior (DOI) today released the first-ever National One Health Framework to Address Zoonotic Diseases and Advance Public Health Preparedness in the United States. One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach that seeks to improve the […]
SHIC Monitoring Emerging PRRSV-2 Lineage 1C.5 Clonally Expanded Clade
First reported in the Swine Health Information Center June 2024 domestic disease monitoring report, an emerging PRRSV Lineage 1C.5 subclade has continued to expand, with increased detection through the fall and winter months of 2024. A team of diagnosticians at Iowa State University have led the investigation into the changing diagnostic trends of the detection […]
SHIC 2025 Plan of Work Focuses on Protection of US Swine Health
Activities of the Swine Health Information Center are guided by its annually updated Plan of Work. The 35 projects included in the recently released 2025 Plan of Work address SHIC’s five strategic priorities: 1) improve swine health information, 2) monitor and mitigate risks to swine health, 3) responding to emerging disease, 4) surveillance and discovery […]
SHIC/FFAR/NPB H5N1 Request for Research Proposals Nets 51 Reponses
The Swine Health Information Center partnered with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and the Pork Checkoff to fund a $4 million research program to enhance prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and response capabilities for H5N1 influenza in the US swine herd. Announced in November 2024, the RFP invited qualified researchers to submit proposals that address […]