January 4, 2008
It is not uncommon for swine herds to become infected with PRRS virus with no obvious source of the infection. In such cases, the producer and veterinarian having explored all possible routes of...August 31, 2007
This project is an attempt to eliminate PRRS virus from all sites having pigs within two defined regions in Minnesota; eastern Rice county and Stevens County. We have completed our fourth year and...July 25, 2006
This report summarizes the analysis of prevalent winds in 16 pairs of neighboring PRRS virus-infected and PRRS virus-negative pig sites. Eight pairs were selected because airborne transmission was...January 12, 2006
The purpose of this project was to determine if pork producers within a defined region were willing to test their herds for PRRS virus, share the results with other cooperating producers, and share...December 1, 2005
In order to generate a protocol to sample lactating piglets to evaluate PRRSV chronically infected herds twelve PRRSV naïve pregnant sows were individually housed and assigned to three different...June 14, 2005
The mean rate of injuries calculated in this population was only 0.45 pigs dead or injured per 1000 pigs transported, with only .09% dead or euthanized. This increased slightly during quarters 3 and...May 30, 2003
We compared the health and performance of weaned pigs in a high health herd between groups receiving low level antibiotics in the feed to groups receiving probiotic in the feed and no antibiotics. ...
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