Porcine circovirus type 2 – better known in the swine world as PCV2 – has become increasingly important for hog producers to control through the use of vaccines. One of the world’s leading researchers on the topic gave a comprehensive presentation to swine vet practitioners on Friday at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica swine health seminar in Dallas. Dr. Tanja Opriessnig …
BIVI Flies High
Who would have thought that an aviation museum would be a good venue for a party? But the Frontiers of Flight museum near Love Field was really a great place for Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica to wrap up its Swine Health Seminar in Dallas on Friday. The theme was “Take Flight with Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica” and like all BIVI events, it …
BIVI President Opens Swine Health Seminar
The president and COO of Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica opened BIVI’s 2009 Swine Health Seminar in Dallas on Friday before a group of nearly 300 swine veterinary professionals. George Heidgerken says events like these are important for BIVI to deliver answers to questions their customers have. “This is a wonderful forum to deliver those answers,” George told me. The seminar included …
BIVI Swine Health Seminar in Dallas
The Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica swine health seminar is about to get underway here in Dallas. The event is being held just prior to the start of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians annual meeting, which is here along with Pork Forum. Our friends at BCS Communications are coordinating the event and are busy right now registering people and getting ready …
Testing For PRRS Exposure
Dr. Jeff Zimmerman (great last name) was one of the presenters at the BI Foundations Seminar. He got some good-natured ribbing for his topic which was on using oral fluid samples to assess PRRS exposure in pigs. Actually, he discussed how the techniques for doing this can apply to a project on area and regional control of PRRS. He says …
PADRAP Now Online
Have you ever heard of PADRAP? It’s not some new kind of music. It’s actually the Production Animal Disease Risk Assessment Program. It’s a web-based version of the PRRS Risk Assessment for the Breeding Herd. At the BI Foundations Seminar Dr. Derald Holtkamp spoke about using PADRAP to asses the risk of exposure in area and regional control projects for …
Web Based PRRS Monitoring
Dr. Peter Davies is from Australia and he participated in a BI Foundations Seminar presentation on software utilities for assessing, monitoring and managing PRRS within a region. He focused on geographic systems and mapping. He sees real application for mapping the virus with some current software options that are web based. This makes it a lot easier to use than …
Mapping PRRS Status Regionally
Taking part in a joint presentation at the BI Foundations Seminar this week was Dr. Enrique Mondaca, a veterinarian from Mexico. His presentation focused on software utilities that are used to map where you’ll find the PRRS virus. He says this is important because often producers don’t know that there is a PRRS outbreak in their area. He says that …
One Way To Control PRRS
Dr. Scott Dee was one of the presenters at the BI Foundations Seminar this week. He provided an update on research assessing aerosol transmission of PRRSV and the results of air filtration technology for preventing the introduction of PRRSV into facilities. And of course, from the viewpoint of applying this to area and regional control projects. Scott says they’ve been …
Combination of Control Options Works Best on PRRS
The whole focus of today’s BI Foundations Seminar is on area and regional control of the PRRS virus. One of our presenters did some research on just how well applying control techniques works on a wide area basis. He’s Dr. Dale Polson. He presented findings from a project that applied the principals of control to a large production system over …