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Significantly Fewer PRRS Breaks Reported this Winter

2014-03-21 17:47:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: American Association of Swine Veterinarians Outbreaks of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus seem to have slowed during the winter of 2013-2014, according to those monitoring the disease. Steven Tousignant, DVM, with the National PRRS Incidence Project at the University of Minnesota, says the 2013-2014 PRRS epidemic season continues to be surprisingly different than previous seasons. Using the previous four years as a baseline to analyze for the expected number of breaks, he indicates that significantly fewer cumulative new PRRS breaks have been observed through December 2013 (p = 0.0002). read more

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