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Call for Abstracts: AASV 2025 Student Seminar and Poster Scholarship Competition
The American Association of Swine Veterinarians announces an opportunity for veterinary students to make a scientific presentation at the AASV Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Interested students are invited to submit a one-page abstract of a research paper, clinical case study, or literature review for consideration.
San Francisco, Here We Come! Reserve Lodging Now
It’s time to reserve lodging for the 2025 AASV Annual Meeting, to be held March 1-4, 2025 in San Francisco, California! The AASV room block at the Marriott Marquis San Francisco is now open for reservations. Reserve online at aasv.org/annmtg/attendees/lodging/ or call 1-415-896-1600. The AASV room rate is $255 per night ($297.81 after state and […]
Registration Open for AVMA DEIW Summit
AVMA’s first DEIW (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing) Summit will bring together a community united by the shared goal of fostering environments that nurture creativity, wellbeing, and collaboration. Registration is now open for this important event, the first of its kind in veterinary medicine. AVMA DEIW Summit Intersections: Where DEI and wellbeing meetAtlanta, GANovember 7-9, 2024CE credit: […]
Texas A&M AgriLife Study Develops Surveillance Tools for Tick and Feral, Domestic Pig Contact
A team of researchers led by experts from the Department of Entomology in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are utilizing emerging genetic technology to create a next-generation surveillance method to protect the U.S. pork industry from African swine fever virus, ASFV. The four-year, $800,000 grant project is funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of […]
2024 Leman Swine Conference Program Available
The 2024 Leman Swine Conference Program is now available! This year’s conference has so many great speakers! Keynotes and breakouts will cover a wide range of topics, including biosecurity, viruses, industry updates, ventilation, pork demand, and more! Register by August 15 to receive the early registration rate! Check out the program!
Free Guide Helps Small Farms Prepare for Emergencies
The AVMA has published a disaster preparedness guide that helps small farms be ready to safeguard their horses, poultry, and other farm animals in the event of an emergency or natural disaster. Small Farm Preparedness: Disaster Preparedness for Owners of Farm Animals is a free, downloadable booklet filled with tips, checklists, and important information for farm […]
Abstract: Experimental reproduction of viral replication and disease in dairy calves and lactating cows inoculated with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b
Abstract: Experimental reproduction of viral replication and disease in dairy calves and lactating cows inoculated with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 of the hemagglutinin clade 2.3.4.4b was detected in the United States in late 2021 and continues to circulate in all four North American flyways to date. […]
Abstract: First detection of PCV4 in swine in the United States: codetection with PCV2 and PCV3 and direct detection within tissues
Abstract: First detection of PCV4 in swine in the United States: codetection with PCV2 and PCV3 and direct detection within tissues
PRRS Now Costs Pork Producers $1.2 Billion Per Year
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome caused an estimated $1.2 billion per year in lost production in the U.S. pork industry from 2016 to 2020, an 80% increase from a decade earlier, according to a new analysis by an Iowa State University expert. The viral disease has been present in U.S. swine herds since the mid-1980s […]