Time to a new PRRS outbreak in naïve breeding herds

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, MSHMP researchers Mariana Kikuti, Catalina Picasso-Risso, Claudio Marcello Melini and Cesar Corzo share data regarding the time it takes for naïve breeding herds to break with PRRSV.

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Investigation of sow mortality in a US system

A recent publication from the MSHMP team in the journal Vet Record analyzed around 10 years of production records to describe sow mortality and its associated risk factors across four different farms in the Midwest.

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Introducing Dr. Xiaomei Yue from the MSHMP team

We are excited to introduce our participants and recipients to Dr. Xiaomei Yue who will be working with the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project. Xiaomei is an animal health economist with a focus on the production and economic effects of animal disease surveillance programs on herds. She conducts retrospective and predictive research on disease surveillance programs to provide decision makers with insights into more effective animal disease control programs.

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Measures of disease occurrence review

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.

Get re-acquainted with a few of the MSHMP epidemiologic tools! Marcello Melini, Mariana Kikuti, Miranda Medrano, Emily Geary, and Cesar A Corzo of the University of Minnesota review some of the graphic representations used in their weekly reports.

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Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project Incidence Year 2021 / 2022 Annual Summary

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.

This week the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project shares a general update and summary of where they are.

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