Epidemiology – Page 2 – Swine in Minnesota

Epidemiological Evaluation of African Swine Fever Spread in the Dominican Republic

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.

Rachel Schambow, Syed Hussain, Maria C. Antognoli, Silvia Kreindel, Raysa Reyes and Andres Perez evaluate contributing factors to the spread of ASF in the Dominican Republic in a collaborative study between the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety at the University of Minnesota, the USDA and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.

First assessment of weeks-to-negative processing fluids in breeding herds after a Senecavirus A outbreak

Today, we are sharing a new article from the Corzo lab, published in Porcine Health Management earlier this month. This study looks at the number of weeks it takes for processing fluids to become negative after a Senecavirus A outbreak. The full article is available on the journal’s website in open access.

Control technologies to prevent aerosol-based disease transmission in animal agriculture

This week, we are sharing a new publication from the Torremorell lab reviewing emerging and currently used technologies to control disease transmission through aerosols.

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Space-time dynamics of African Swine Fever spread in the Philippines

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 today’s Science Page Chia-Hui Hsu and Andres Perez from the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, and Maximino Montenegro from the Pig Improvement Company in the Philippines, examine the spatial and temporal patterns of ASF in the Philippines between 2019 and 2022.

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Viral Diversity within a Farrow-to-Wean Farm Cohort

Today we are sharing a recent publication from the MSHMP team in collaboration with the VanderWaal and Schroeder’s labs. The objective of the study was to assess the diversity of PRRS genomes within a cohort of naïve pigs undergoing a PRRS outbreak. The full paper is available online in open access.