Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus impacts as much as half of all swine breeding farms in the United States. It’s one of the most costly issues the swine industry faces. The virus now costs the U.S. pork industry $1.2 billion per year in lost production, an 80-percent increase in the last decade.
Continue reading “AI brings 30 years of data to the real world”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 research done by Sehyeong Ham, Jeongmin Suh, Hyejean Cho, and Chanhee Chae into sequential infection order of porcine circovirus type 2 and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.
Continue reading “Importance of sequential infection order of porcine circovirus type 2 and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus to divergent clinical outcomes”Today, we are sharing a recent publication from the MSHMP team comparing different piglet postmortem samples to detect PRRS. The article is available in open access on the Journal’s website.
Continue reading “Postmortem Sampling in Piglet Populations for PRRS Detection”By Kim VanderWaal, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
For those outside the pig world, it comes as a surprise that a disease affecting pigs, PRRSV-2, is one of the most sequenced viruses in the world. But those inside the pig world are unsurprised, because they know that the way sequence data is utilized in swine health management is unparalleled by human medicine. If you, as a human, get infected with the common cold, you are unlikely to even get a diagnosis, let alone will the doctor request a genetic sequence for your particular virus to make decisions about care or treatment. However, that is exactly what happens when farms break PRRSV-2: the genetic sequence of the virus is often used by animal health professionals for disease monitoring and management.
Continue reading “Surprising but true: PRRSV is one of the most sequenced viruses in the world”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 gives us an update on the 1H.18 PRRSV variant they’ve been monitoring.
Continue reading “Updates on monitored PRRSV variants”