The 14th International Symposium on the Epidemiology and Control of Biological, Chemical and Physical Hazards in Pigs and Pork will be held in New Orleans, LA, United States, from 15-17 May 2023. The conference is now accepting abstracts on food safety risks and methods that contribute to their control.
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Public health aspects related to African swine fever and global animal health – A free webinar
Register now for the second webinar in the Animal health aspects related to African swine fever series, “Public health aspects related to African swine fever and global animal health” on Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 7:00 AM Central Standard Time.
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The Swine Disease Eradication Center is proud to present its new podcast “Processing the Litter-ature”: a podcast in which peer-reviewed papers are docked, clipped and supplemented with a field perspective.
In the first episode, Dr. Carissa Odland and Dr. Peter Davies discuss their paper “Evaluation of the Impact of Antimicrobial Use Protocols in Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus-Infected Swine on Phenotypic Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns.”
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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.
In this week’s science page UMN Veterinary Population Medicine researchers Joaquin Alvarez-Norambuena, Mariana Kikuti, Albert Rovira and Cesar Corzo investigate the detection of wild-type or modified-live vaccine sequences in in-vitro samples.
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This is our most popular series on the blog. Once a month, we are sharing with you a presentation given at the Allen D. Leman swine conference, on topics that the swine group found interesting, innovative or that lead to great discussions.
You can find all of the presentations selected from previous conferences on the blog here.
Today we hear about increasing sow milk yield from Chantal Farmer of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, which was one of the most talked about breakout sessions at the 2022 Leman Swine conference!
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