foreign animal disease – Swine in Minnesota

Beliefs, Behaviors, and Practices of Farm Biosecurity in the Midwestern U.S. Swine Operations

Today, we are sharing a recent published manuscript from a collaboration between the swine group and the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety at the University of Minnesota. The project focused on biosecurity practices from the Secure Pork Supply plan and the consistency with which they were applied on farms. The full text is available in open access on the journal Animals’ website.

Senecavirus A disease incidence estimates in the U.S. breeding herd

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 the MSHMP team takes a look at Senecavirus A incidence in the United States over the past decade.

Best of Leman 2022: Jerry Torrison -FADs… Are we ready (together)?

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.

Want more? Find previous presentations in our Best of Leman archives.

For our first Best of Leman for 2022, we listen to Dr. Jerry Torrison giving one of the conference’s keynote presentations, on Foreign Animal Disease preparedness.

USDA awards University of Minnesota over $1.5 million to research Foreign Animal Disease

Two projects: one lead by Andres Perez, DVM, PhD and Jerry Torrison, DVM, PhD, DACVPM focuses on surveillance and detection of foreign animal disease, one lead by Sunil Mor, BVSc & AH, MVSc, PhD, aims to develop rapid field test for foot-and-mouth disease.

CVM researchers awarded $1 million to develop strategies to protect animals during disease outbreaks

The University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine’s (CVM) Secure Food System (SFS) team collaborate with public and private partners to develop tactical biosecurity strategies to limit disease spread for specific animal movements based on risk-based science. The awarded work pursues these objectives:

Assess the risk of animal movements and their agricultural products during an outbreak and translate the risk-based science into workable movement permit guidance;
Develop tactical strategies to limit foreign animal disease (FAD) outbreak spread in integrated agriculture systems; and
Conduct outreach on emergency preparedness and the SFS platform.