The director of the Swine Health Information Center says one of the highlights of 2020 was advancing research that is opening the door to accurately predicting disease outbreaks before they occur.
Dr. Paul Sundberg tells Brownfield they are analyzing producer data from the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) outbreak in 2013.
“Weather, the topography around farms, the movement arounds farms, those types of things that happen and resulted in a PED outbreak.”
Armed with that data, he says researchers can now predict with some certainty a PED outbreak on a farm about two weeks before it’s going to happen.
