The mission of the Swine Health Information Center is to protect and enhance the health of the United States swine herd through coordinated global disease monitoring, targeted research investments that minimize the impact of future disease threats, and analysis of swine health data.

Disease Monitoring Reports

SHIC conceptualized and funded two systems for near real-time domestic and global swine disease monitoring. Information made available by these systems will enable better, faster, and more effective response to endemic or foreign infectious diseases.

Rapid Response Corp Program

Designed for epidemiological investigations of transboundary or newly emerging swine disease, the Rapid Response Corp Program is carried out by a team of specifically-trained industry experts to analyze the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in affected herds.

Research

SHIC supports swine industry research related to its mission and reports all research results.

Emerging Disease Resource and Information

SHIC offers valuable programs and provides relevant information on emerging diseases including the Rapid Response Program, Diagnostic Fee Assistance, PCR Assay Catalog, CNS Syndrome, Sow Market , and Seneca Valley Virus information, Swine Disease Matrix, Swine Disease Fact Sheets, and Communication Plan for New or Emerging Disease incidence.

Fact Sheets

Thirty-four fact sheets on top swine diseases of concern are now available. The fact sheets cover the information that a veterinarian and producer need to know right away in the face of an outbreak.

Diagnostic Assistance

SHIC will support diagnostic fees for emerging disease discovery in approved cases.

News and articles

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December 19, 2018
Published by Paul Sundberg at December 19, 2018
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SHIC Notes New Outbreak of SVA in Brazil

In August 2015, a new, national outbreak of Seneca Valley A (SVA) began in the US, just one month after the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) started operations. Looking back, we discovered Brazil had gone through an SVA outbreak during the late fall and winter of 2014-15 in the US, during their summer season, preceding the US occurrence.
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December 18, 2018
Published by Paul Sundberg at December 18, 2018
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Swine Disease Global Surveillance Report December Bi-Monthly Update

The initial expression of African swine fever (ASF) in an ASF-free country like the US could be variable and unpredictable due to the myriad of factors including the epidemiology of ASF and the broad diversity of virulence among ASF virus isolates.
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December 12, 2018
Published by Paul Sundberg at December 12, 2018
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SHIC Sponsors Research to Examine PCV3 Relationships to Learn More About Epidemiology

Does porcine circovirus Type 3 (PCV3) cause disease or is it just there? It feels counterintuitive to be talking about a type of circovirus and whether […]
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Our Goal

Our goal is to protect and enhance the health of the United States swine herd through targeted research investments that minimize the impact of future disease threats through collection and analysis of swine health data and global disease monitoring.