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    Forecasting swine disease outbreaks

    Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS
    calendar icon 30 December 2021
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    Filtration audits help prepare for PRRS season

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 29 December 2021
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    Regular biosecurity checks with a close look at filtration and ventilation systems will help prevent the spread of airborne pathogens

    8 ways to boost immunity in livestock

    Treatments and prevention Pig health
    calendar icon 28 December 2021
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    Suggestions for optimising immunity

    Weighing the sustainability benefits of immunological castration in Europe

    Pig Welfare Castration
    calendar icon 10 December 2021
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    Novel machine-learning tool can predict PRRSV outbreaks and biosecurity effectiveness

    Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS
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    November - December 2019

    Number 1 biosecurity lesson: never stop improving

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 23 December 2019
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    The first lesson of biosecurity, according to Andrea Pitkin, DVM, health assurance veterinarian for PIC, is to learn, modify and adapt because new threats can surface at any time.

    Maintain mycoplasma-negative herds with laryngeal swab tests from incoming gilts

    Disease
    calendar icon 20 December 2019
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    Diagnostic experts: PCV3 is common in US swine herds

    Disease
    calendar icon 16 December 2019
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    Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) was first reported in 2016, but appears to have been present in swine populations decades prior to that time, said Bailey Arruda, DVM, a diagnostic pathologist at Iowa State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

    Fogging helps establish Day 0 for M. hyo elimination

    Disease
    calendar icon 8 December 2019
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    The company’s commitment to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyo) elimination is an important component of the equation, and fogging (aerosolised exposure) has been a useful tool in the process.

    Moving parts: Integrated, holistic approach needed for effective mycoplasma control

    Disease
    calendar icon 23 November 2019
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    Renewed interest in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyo) and its impact on herd health and performance has prompted producers and veterinarians to re-evaluate control strategies for the costly bacterial disease.

    Mycoplasma elimination possible, but more difficult on farrow-to-finish sites

    Disease
    calendar icon 16 November 2019
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    With the right program in place, eliminating mycoplasma pneumonia is possible on many hog farms. Farrow-to-finish sites are still the most difficult to clean up, however, reported Swine Vet Center’s Paul Yeske, DVM.

    Larger litters and more competition for colostrum make pigs more susceptible to clostridial enteritis

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 13 November 2019
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    Clostridium perfringens is one of those pathogens that’s almost always a threat to sow herds and their neonates.
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