This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
Key points from this week edition:
- Dilute vaccine aerosolization combined with novel environmental sampling techniques allowed for testing of PRRSV aerosol entry into Positive Pressure Filtration (PPF) farm access points.
- Under the experimental conditions of this study, positive pressure air speeds >1.85m/s resulted in no aerosol transmission.
- Ensuring adequate positive pressure air speed through steps taken to increase access point pressure can further reduce the risk of aerosol PRRSV transmission on PPF farms.
The full report on positive pressure filtration and PRRSV transmission via aerosols is available.