[ptsal]

“It was a brand-new observation to discover viruses could be transmitted in feed,” Dee says. “We knew salmonella and mycotoxins could be found in feed, but no one had ever thought about viruses.”

Dee’s groundbreaking research on viral transmission and biosecurity has changed the landscape on how swine farms are protected against pathogens today.

“After the original ‘snowball from hell’ work, where we learned that PRRS virus can be moved around the landscape mechanically on boots and trucks, etc., we developed the disinfection and downtime room in 2000,” Dee says. “Then we studied aerosol transmission of PRRSV and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae over long distances and introduced the concept of air filtration. Then came the feed research that rolled into foreign animal disease preparedness. It’s been this layering of science, application, science, application.”

[Chickensoup]

OUT OF THE BOX THINKING

nice

[vetvetdoug]

I've been saying this all along, when it comes to diseases within populations the best person to make workable recommendations to reduce the spread of the disease is a veterinarian. Physicians in charge of this Coronavirus epidemic have been ignoring the experience that veterinarians have dealt with for decades.