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Mar 03, 2021 Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) caught the U.S. pork industry by surprise. Both its virulence and widespread consequences devastated the U.S. swine herd as well as producers’ livelihoods and damaged related industries. In response to this transboundary, emerging swine disease, the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) was launched in July 2015 by the National Pork Board (NPB). Funded by a one-time Checkoff investment of $15 million in supplemental funds, SHIC had an original life span of five years, however, this was extended by NPB vote to July 2022 using existing SHIC...

Midwestern mink farms navigate COVID fears Animal vaccine possible after outbreaks kill 5,500 on Wisconsin fur farms.  February 16, 2021 — 8:09pm Text size Copy shortlink: A rash of COVID deaths of farmed mink in Wisconsin last fall raised alarms that the operations could spread the virus to wild animals or even create dangerous new variants, similar to a variant that led the Danish government to order all mink in the country killed last year to prevent a major outbreak. Veterinarians in Wisconsin and Minnesota say they don't see...