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March 27, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
Global swine disease monitoring identified Japanese encephalitis virus, a transboundary disease transmitted by Culex mosquitos, as an emerging threat to the US swine industry. The 2022 JEV outbreak...
March 27, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
Japanese encephalitis virus, a transboundary emerging disease risk for US introduction, carries with it potential economic implications greater than $500 million per a recent economic assessment...
March 27, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
In the eighth annual report to the Swine Health Information Center, which provides the primary funding for its work, Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project leader Dr. Cesar Corzo of the University...
March 26, 2024 —
There has been a recent disease event in dairy cattle with reports of affected herds in several states. Samples submitted from dairy cattle affected with the current disease outbreak were recently...
March 20, 2024 —
The Swine Disease Reporting System is introducing the SDRS PRRSV BLAST tool, a one-of-a-kind implementation of a Basic Local Alignment Search Tool specific to the PRRSV ORF5 sequences. The tool's...
March 5, 2024 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announces a collaboration with the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) to bolster national animal...
March 5, 2024 —
The Swine Health Information Center's (SHIC) March Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available. This month's Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report includes the new SDRS Blast for PRRSV...
February 21, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
On February 6, 2024, the Swine Health Information Center along with the American Association of Swine Veterinarians offered a webinar focused on emerging trends of porcine circovirus. Expert...
February 20, 2024 —
Van Eenennaam details global research in livestock gene editing, expensive process to FDA approval. CRISPR is king. That's what Cooperative Extension Professor in Animal Genomics and Biotechnology at...
February 9, 2024 —
During this week's 2024 Winter Policy Conference, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture members adopted 11 policy amendments and four action items, addressing issues such as...
February 8, 2024 —
Since porcine epidemic diarrhea virus entered the U.S. swine herd in 2013, it's been an industry battle, both good and bad, says Bill Hollis. However, the veterinarian with Carthage Veterinary...
February 7, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
In response to a severe 2021 outbreak of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP) serotype 15 in Iowa finishers, SHIC funded research to define the risk and mitigation of this emerging swine disease...
February 6, 2024 —
The Swine Health Information Center's (SHIC) February Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available. This month's Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report brings the new chart for weekly...
January 25, 2024 —
Benjamin Franklin was right when he said, 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.' Nothing could be truer when it comes to protecting agriculture. The 2015 outbreak of highly pathogenic...
January 24, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
Research provides critical information and resources to help pork producers as they face emerging disease challenges in their swine herds. Research priorities and topics identified in the SHIC 2024...
January 17, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
In December 2023, SHIC funded a study to investigate porcine astrovirus 4 as an emerging pathogen capable of causing respiratory illness in pigs. Dr. Mike Rahe, North Carolina State University, leads...
January 10, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
New 2023 Progress Report provides pork producers, swine veterinarians, and industry stakeholders a review of the Swine Health Information Center's activities and accomplishments to carry out its...
January 9, 2024 —
Have a breeding herd experiencing a PRRS outbreak? You have the opportunity to enroll the breeding herd into the POMP (PRRS Outbreak Management Protocol) program to compare how this breeding herd...
January 3, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
Activities of the Swine Health Information Center are guided by its annual Plan of Work detailing projects to address its five strategic priorities, including 1) improving swine health information,...
January 2, 2024 —
The Swine Health Information Center's (SHIC) January Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available. This month's Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report brings the 2023 highlights, including...
December 26, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
With funding from the Swine Health Information Center renewed for 2023-2024, the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project's industry-driven goals continue to focus on enhancing the health of the US...
December 20, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
During the 2023 NAPRRS/NC229 International Conference of Swine Viral Diseases (ICSVD), the Swine Health Information Center hosted a special session, "Biosecurity in the US Swine Industry."...
December 20, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
The Swine Health Information Center's Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report began with the goal of providing aggregated endemic swine pathogen PCR detection statistics to inform the US pork...
December 13, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
Infectious diseases such as PED, PRRS, influenza, and others can be transmitted through contaminated airborne particles. A variety of industries use different technologies to control aerosolized...
December 13, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
The Swine Health Information Center's Standardized Outbreak Investigation Program (SOIP) was introduced in early 2023 with a downloadable standardized outbreak investigation Word-based form. Now, a...
December 12, 2023 —
The Swine Health Information Center's (SHIC) December Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available. This month's Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report brings a new PRRSV RFLP/lineage...
November 22, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
Livestock trailer cleanliness is normally determined by visual evaluation, assessing if it is free of organic material and suitable to return to a farm. However, studies have shown visual inspection...
November 15, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
During the 2023 NAPRRS/NC229 International Conference of Swine Viral Diseases (ICSVD), the Swine Health Information Center will present a special session, "Biosecurity in the US Swine...
November 13, 2023 —
The Swine Health Information Center's (SHIC) November Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available. This month's Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report brings Porcine Circovirus type 3...
November 1, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
The opportunity to provide input for the Swine Health Information Center's 2024 Plan of Work remains open until November 10, 2023. Input may include topic areas, research priorities, and identified...
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Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues