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 working to find out just how far PRRS will spread and it looks like about 2 miles is the limit. He says that using air filtration seems to be pretty effective at keeping the virus out.
You can listen to my interview with Dr. Dee here: bi-foundations-08-dee.mp3