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 Lucas Ferreira, Samira Chatila, Mark Schwartz, Marie Culhane, and Cesar A Corzo take a deeper look at the results of a survey given to drivers as part of a larger study.
Continue reading “Assessment of market hog truck driver biosecurity practices”
Veterinary students: Did you shadowing a swine practitioner this summer or have you been involved in an interesting clinical case investigation? Did you work on your veterinary skills by designing a differential diagnosis list or working on a treatment plan? Did you investigate a problem by analyzing production records? Share your work at the Allen D. Leman Swine Conference to win the Morrison Swine Innovator Prize!
Continue reading “Last chance for DVM Students to apply for the Morrison Swine Innovator Prize at this year’s Leman Swine Conference! Apply by Saturday!”Today, we are sharing a recent publication from the Secure Food Systems team at the University of Minnesota, in which they are performing a proactive analysis regarding transmission pathways that African Swine Fever could potentially take in pork harvest facilities.
Continue reading “Explorating Routes of ASFv Entry into and Spread from Two Pork Harvest Facilities in the US”
As the world continues to grapple with evolving infectious diseases, scientists are increasingly turning to pigs in the fight against influenza.
A team of international researchers, including experts from the University of Minnesota, believes treatments and vaccines that prove effective in pigs are more likely to succeed in humans compared to those developed using traditional small-animal models.
Continue reading “Vaccines developed with pig models hold the key to tackling the global threat of flu”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.
The Science Page this week is brought to you by researchers Alice Perrucci, Alice Magri, Vanessa Cardana, Simona Zoppi, Claudia Cossettini, and Annalisa Scollo.
Continue reading “Hygiene procedures of trucks transporting live pigs: multi-assessment validation of a standardized C&D protocol”