Source: PORK BUSINESS, 11/19/18


As the world swine population continues to grow domestically and internationally, this opens doors to producers and veterinarians to visit production locations away from home. In some cases, this may involve going to a location with diseases that aren’t present in the U.S.. Knowing this, it’s good to review biosecurity measures we can take to minimize risk of pathogen transmission and keep our borders safe. On this topic, we all stand on common ground: to protect our national swine herd from four viruses we are free of: African swine fever virus, hog cholera, pseudorabies virus and foot-and-mouth disease.

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