News - SHIC

Animal health officials are responding to the first case of a pig in the United States testing positive for high path H5N1 avian influenza.

The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) is advising pork producers to step up their focus on biosecurity heading into the fall manure application season.

The Associate Director of the Swine Health Information Center is encouraging pork producers to be reviewing biosecurity heading into the fall.

Pork producers are being advised take steps to avoid the introduction of High Path Avian Influenza into the swine barn.

Pork producers are being encouraged to take advantage of the summer lull in disease transmission to take steps to enhance biosecurity.

North American pork producers are being encouraged to take every precaution and to focus on day-to-day biosecurity to keep disease causing organisms off the farm.

A survey of swine caretakers suggests a variety of factors play a role in the consistency of compliance with day-to-day biosecurity protocols.

The Associate Director of the Swine Health Information Center is advising pork producers, especially those operating sow farms, to be paying particular attention to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.

The Associate Director of the Swine Health Information Center reports continued increased porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea activity last month, a reflection of the winter weather.

The Associate Director of the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) says the ongoing spread and resurgence of African Swine Fever remains the dominant global swine disease concern.