Better control of the air that hogs breathe offers the greatest promise for preventing the transmission of PRRSv that the industry has ever seen.

That is what Dr. Scott Dee with the Swine Disease Eradication Center in Minnesota told producers attending the Boehringer Ingelheim swine health seminar in North Carolina.

We have chatted with Dr. Dee before here on Agwired – most recently at World Pork Expo – and his main message is one of optimism for ultimately eradicating PRRS. “I’ve just never seen anything work like this before, where we can actually protect a farm from a neighbor virus,” Scott says about using air filtration for hog operations, which are being studied long term at the research center in Minnesota.

Cost may be a limiting factor for producers, but Scott says they have seen even the most expensive systems can pay for themselves in one year.

BIVI swine health seminar photo album

Listen to or download an interview with Dr. Scott Dee here: