A Review of MSHMP’s Report PED Chart 3: PED Outbreak History

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 Friday we review MSHMP’s PED Chart 3, which shows the previous PED break history for farms which break with PED during the current year.

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Disease surveillance programs: a podcast episode

Every year there is some form of disease outbreak in swine herds across the US. Whether it is PRRSV, PEDV, or something else, we need to make sure that we are doing everything in our power to maintain a high health status on our farms. In this podcast Dr. Cesar Corzo talks with Laura Greiner about his work on his Swine Health Monitoring Program about ways we can minimize the spread of diseases to other farms, and how to more effectively keep our farms disease free.

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Prevalence comparison among different MSHMP cohorts

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.

University of Minnesota researchers Mariana Kikuti, Miranda Medrano, Marcello Melini, Carles Vilalta, Juan Sanhueza, Emily Geary, Cesar Corzo compare PRRSV disease status between systems that originally shared their sow herd status with MSHMP and those that joined the program later.

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PRRS 2021-2022 Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) by State

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 we take a look at PRRS EWMA patterns in Iowa, North Carolina, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Illinois, thanks to research done by Mariana Kikuti, Emily Geary, Paulo Fioravante, Marcello Melini, Miranda Medrano, Cesar Corzo.

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What monitoring taught us about PRRS: a podcast episode

Dr. Cesar Corzo shares what he has learned about PRRS since becoming the lead investigator of the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) in an episode of the Swine Doc Pod with Carthage.

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