Assessment of SVA Trailer Contamination at the Harvest Facility

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, Mark Schwartz, Marie Culhane, and Cesar A Corzo share the results of their study on Seneca virus detection on market hog trailers.

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Evaluation of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus RNA contamination on swine industry transportation vehicles

The Science Page today is from researchers Taylor B Parker, Kelly A Meiklejohn, Gustavo Machado, Michael Rahe, Bradford Sean Darrow, and Juliana Bonin Ferreira, who take a look at PEDV contamination on trucks before and after cleaning.

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Evaluating the role of vehicle movements to spread African swine fever

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’s Science Page takes a look at data analyzed by Jason A. Galvis and Gustavo Machado at North Carolina State University to determine the role of vehicles in the spread of ASFV.

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