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
A recent Swine Health Information Center (SHIC)-assisted investigation into a case of increased death loss associated with acute onset of CNS signs, initially described as tremors,
September 28, 2016 — Paul Sundberg The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) convened a cross-section of experts involved in swine disease diagnostics at the veterinary diagnostic
The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) continues to make strides toward making nationwide operational disease preparedness a reality with its Rapid Response Corps (RRC) project. Specifically,
The Swine Health Information Center is tracking the risk of a variant strain of pseudorabies and a highly pathogenic strain of PRRS that are causing problems
August 3, 2016 — Paul Sundberg The Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) was created in 2012 to prospectively monitor the incidence of PRRS virus, but has since
July 27, 2016 — Paul Sundberg and Bob Morrison The Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) was developed in 2012 to monitor the incidence of PRRS
July 27, 2016 — Paul Sundberg Using funds from Swine Health Information Center (SHIC)’s Support for Diagnostic Fees program, porcine sapelovirus has been implicated in an acute outbreak
Since January, over 60 positive accessions of the Senecavirus A (Senecavirus A.) have been reported by labs across the United States and new cases appear to
As the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) celebrates its first anniversary, it’s time to look back at what the organization has accomplished in its first year
Recently, the number of calls and emails about growing pigs showing a wide range of neurologic signs of disease possibly related to three somewhat lesser-known viruses
Just since January, diagnostic labs from across the country have already reported more than 60 accessions positive for Senecavirus A or Senecavirus A (Figure 1). We