Articles - Pig health

In this series of articles, we will review some important disease transmission events that occurred through the feed supply chain and we will outline the characteristics of a comprehensive feed biosecurity program that considers the biosecurity of feed ingredients and also the milling and delivery processes.

Pros and cons of the most used carcass disposal systems: burial, composting, incineration, and rendering. Impacts on environment and biosecurity.

Answers to a series of frequently asked questions regarding vaccine usage and their interaction with the immune system.

Although cleaning between batches appears to be a basic task that all farms should be doing correctly, after talking to the authors we see that there is still a lot of room for improvement.

What laboratory diagnostic methods can I use to diagnose E. coli? Which one should I choose according to the situation? How do I interpret the results?

What factors cause increased mortality and slow-growing piglets in the nursery phase? How can we address these issues?

How and when should I use controlled oral exposure? What are the risks?

The innovative digital biosecurity control system and its application to the objective monitoring of internal biosecurity and on-farm movements.

In the first article of this series, the four specialists shared with us about the increase in neonatal diarrhea problems and explained which were the main causative agents according to their experience. In this article, we will address preventive strategies using vaccination methods.

Porcine Parvovirus was thought to be genetically stable, but now we know that it exists in a variety of forms, raising fresh questions about its control in sow herds.

New approaches and technologies in objective monitoring of biosecurity reduce the risk of non-compliance or failure in application.

Dr. Hans Nauwynck, a well-known professor at the University of Ghent, reviews with us the most important findings that he has made in PRRS virus research since it was first discovered 30 years ago.

What is the actual effect of pneumonia on the farm's economic performance? What similarity is there between pneumonia and heat stress?

In this third article of our series, our global swine health experts continue sharing their perspectives on successful strategies for the reduction of antibiotics as well as learnings from some of the mistakes made along the way.

We summarize our discussion with Dr. Hans Nauwynck, professor at Ghent University, related to several PRRS hot topics: autovaccines, regional control and elimination, boar studs, and replacement gilts PRRS status.

Neonatal diarrhea is a common and often frustrating pathology, Today, four swine specialists give us their opinions about this problem, sharing their knowledge and point of view from different geographic locations.

In this second article of our series, our swine health experts share their perspectives on the most important strategies for the reduction of antibiotic use in their respective countries.

Biosecurity and prevention measures must take into account that as low as 5 units of ASF virus are enough to produce infection.

The three most important things in respect to a PRRSV control program are: 1) planning; 2) planning and 3) planning; and the success of the program depends also on three important factors: 1) people; 2) people and 3) people!

Traditional surveillance protocols for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae should not become a tradition. In this article, the authors give us their field-based research approach for an updated surveillance protocol with increased diagnostic accuracy.

With the ever-present risk of further ASF spread, compartmentalization offers an attractive alternative to zoning as an option for swine producers to ensure business continuity and sustained trade in the face of ASF.

In this series of articles about internal biosecurity we will review McRebel and other strategies that we perform to control the movement of pathogens within the farm as we complete our daily work