Early communication essential to engage resources When emerging swine disease arises, early communication about outbreaks is essential. Veterinarians and pork producers need to know who to

By Dan Sutherland Introduction The swine industry continues to deal with the threat of emerging new diseases. Post production pig movement plays an important role in

Modeling the transboundary survival of foreign animal disease pathogens in contaminated feed ingredients. Introduction: The North American swine industry is under constant threat of foreign animal

There are multiple, effective transport biosecurity programs used in today’s pork industry but there is no consensus on a baseline set of SOPs that are implementable

Ames, Iowa – The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) Plan of Work for 2017 was recently approved by the organization’s Board of Directors and published on

Every day is important. Every move is important,” emphasizes Dr. Laura Bruner of Swine Vet Center. One of Dr. Bruner’s farms learned this the hard way.

In January of 2016, Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) executive director Paul Sundberg emphasized, “We don’t know what the next threat will be, but coordinated disease

A recent study that looked at the duration of Senecavirus A (SVA) shedding from clinically affected and non-affected sows and piglets after a breeding herd infection

Looking back at 2016, the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) accomplished many things in its mission to protect and enhance the health of the United States swine herd.

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In 2006, in China, over 2 Million pigs were affected by Highly Pathogenic PRRS Virus. Over 400,000 died. Today, the variant virus continues to plague the

Can foreign animal diseases enter the US via feed imports from high risk countries? Until recently, we didn’t know the answer, because the research had not