Comparative adsorption of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus strains to Minnesota soils

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 Joaquin Alvarez-Norambuena, Angie Quinones, Sagar Goyal and Cesar Corzo share the results of a study examining PRRS strains in soil.

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Stability of ASF virus in soil and mitigation of the transmission risk

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 are sharing the summary of a paper published in open access in the journal called Pathogens by a research team out of Germany looking at the survival of the African Swine Fever virus in the soil.

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