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The last of the three summaries by Antonio Palomo dedicated to the 2024 edition of the Allen D. Leman Conference focuses on health: biosecurity and viral and bacterial diseases.

We analyze the two most relevant respiratory viruses in the swine population.

This article describes the main characteristics of commercial vaccines to combat PRRS.

Gene editing represents a significant technological advancement that we must thoroughly understand due to its potential impact on the swine industry. Will there be animals resistant to viral diseases?

Moving away from weekly batch management improved Time to stability, Time to baseline production and Total Piglet losses per 1,000 sows after a PRRS outbreak.

The overall risk of a PRRS outbreak is 12 times higher during the first 15 days after pumping manure than the rest of the year.

In this first installment, Antonio Palomo summarizes the presentations and posters from the latest edition of IPVS and ESPHM-ECPHM.

Farmer profiling to understand their objections or willingness towards PRRS elimination using the ADKAR change management model.

Antonio Palomo summarizes the presentations on swine health from the recent edition of the AASV that took place in Nashville (Tennessee).

How do turbinate atrophy and the effect on cilia caused by B. bronchiseptica affect the incidence of S. suis and porcine respiratory disease complex?

Are we using the best samples and techniques to monitor PRRS absence in boar studs?

Detection of lung lesions in slaughtered pigs also allows estimation of economic losses.

A case study on identifying and addressing entry-related biosecurity hazards on a sow farm.

PRRS creates frustrating challenges as it seems we have to keep learning the same lessons we already know, along with the occasional new chapter.

Too often a single sequence information is used to make important conclusions regarding virus source, especially for new PRRS outbreaks, guiding outbreak investigations, and future interventions.

In this article we will focus the discussion on the practical applications of the new monitoring systems.