This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
Doctors Guilherme Preis and Cesar Corzo from the University of Minnesota share with us preliminary data from a Senecavirus A (SVA) outbreak investigation in a sow herd. This research emphasizes the importance of understanding the within-herd epidemiology of this virus.
Highlights
- SVA is still present in the U.S. swine herds at lower levels.
- SVA RNA has been consistently detected in processing fluids in the event of a disease outbreak in a sow herd.
- Viral dynamics and shedding cessation in the breeding herds need to be better characterized.