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March 26, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
If you attended the 50th AASV Annual Meeting in Orlando, thank you! We hope it was an enjoyable and productive meeting for you. Please help us improve future AASV meetings by providing your comments...
March 26, 2019 — The Maschhoffs [Jobs]
The Maschhoffs seeks a genetic herd veterinarian, based in southern Illinois. Job Duties and Accountabilities Monitor health and surveillance programs for TML's internal genetic operations and...
March 25, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
For the third year of its four-year commitment, Phibro Animal Health is contributing $25,000 to the AASV Foundation endowment, thanks in part to strong giving by AASV members. In 2016, the company...
March 22, 2019 — [An.H.]
Please be aware there has been a diagnosis of PED virus at the Oklahoma Youth Expo. Several pigs have become ill and we assume most pigs that were at the show or are there now have been exposed....
March 22, 2019 — [FAD]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Greg Ibach, alerts international travelers of a deadly swine disease that they could unknowingly...
March 22, 2019 — [FAD]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. Jack Shere is reminding pig producers and veterinarians of the signs and symptoms of a deadly swine disease that could dramatically...
March 20, 2019 — [Conf.]
The National Pork Board is pleased to offer a scientific poster session as part of the 2019 Pig Welfare Symposium to be held November 13-15, 2019 at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center. The...
March 20, 2019 — [Gov.]
Last week, USDA-trained detector dogs played a major role in the seizure of roughly 1 million pounds of pork smuggled from China where there is an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF). The highly...
March 20, 2019 — [Welfare]
Join us on Monday, March 25, for a free, one-hour webinar that previews the release of the first edition of the AVMA Guidelines for the Depopulation of Animals. Dr. Steven Leary, chair of the AVMA's...
March 20, 2019 — [Gov.]
The time of the joint APHIS-NRCS feral swine listening session has been changed and will now take place on Friday, April 5, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you...
March 20, 2019 — Paul Sundberg [FAD]
In 2018, African swine fever (ASF) spread into Western Europe, and, for the first time, into China and Southeast Asia. Such dramatic change in the global epidemiological conditions of ASF has...
March 20, 2019 — [Ind.]
On March 15, 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that it intercepted a large shipment of illegal pork products from China before it could enter the United States. The contraband...
March 20, 2019 — [FAD]
Read the latest Foreign Animal Disease Preparation Bulletin brought to you by the Pork Checkoff, in collaboration with NPPC, SHIC, and AASV. Headlines include: African Swine Fever Continues Global...
March 20, 2019 — [FAD]
Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious livestock disease. Since 2001, outbreaks abroad have cost billions of dollars. A U.S. outbreak would likely halt exports of all livestock products, and...
March 20, 2019 — [Abs.]
The purpose of this review is to present the best available scientific knowledge on key animal welfare issues during swine transport, such as transport duration and distance, time off feed and water,...
March 20, 2019 — [Conf.]
Registration for the Veterinary Biologics Training Program, May 20-24, 2019 is open through April 15. If space is available, late applications will be accepted. The Veterinary Biologics Training...
March 20, 2019 — [AASV]
Dr. Julie Funk has moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she has assumed duties as dean of the University of Arizona's proposed College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM). She was previously a professor and...
March 20, 2019 — Harry Snelson [OP-ED]
I'm sure many of you noticed the signs around the hotel in Orlando warning about the presence of alligators. This led to a discussion I overheard regarding how to tell the difference between an...
March 19, 2019 — [FAD]
Webinar: March 22, 2019 11 AM ESTPurpose/Objective: Toward continued readiness for African Swine Fever response, the APHIS VS Training and Exercise Program would like to invite you to listen in to...
March 19, 2019 — The Maschhoffs [Jobs]
The Maschhoffs seeks a genetic herd veterinarian, based in southern Illinois. Job Duties and Accountabilities Monitor health and surveillance programs for TML's internal genetic operations and...
March 15, 2019 — [AASV]
Dr Chelsea Stewart, a 2016 graduate of Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and continuous AASV member since joining as a student in 2013, received the newly established AASV Member...
March 15, 2019 — [AASV]
Dr Steven Henry received the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation's Heritage Award during the AASV's 50th Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Dr Paul Ruen, AASV Foundation chair,...
March 15, 2019 — [AASV]
Dr Erin Lowe was named the 2019 recipient of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation Hogg Scholarship. Mary Lou Hogg presented the scholarship during the American Association of...
March 15, 2019 — [AASV]
Dr Paul Ruen, chairman of the AASV Foundation, announced the selection of three research proposals for funding during the foundation's annual luncheon on March 10th in Orlando, Florida. The...
March 14, 2019 — [AASV]
AASV and the Swine Medicine Education Center (SMEC) at Iowa State University (ISU) are excited to extend the invitation for all AASV members view the Swine Medicine Talks: An AASV and SMECast Series...
March 14, 2019 — [Research]
The Awards for Advancing Research in Respiratory Disease (AWARRD) provide more than $100,000 each year for research relating to infectious porcine respiratory diseases. This year, three outstanding...
March 14, 2019 — [AASV]
Even if you weren't able to attend the AASV Annual Meeting in Orlando, you can still benefit from the many excellent presentations delivered at the meeting. The conference proceedings (including the...
March 13, 2019 — AASV Staff [AASV]
If you attended the 50th AASV Annual Meeting in Orlando, thank you! We hope it was an enjoyable and productive meeting for you. Please help us improve future AASV meetings by providing your comments...
March 13, 2019 — [Students]
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has an externship opportunity for four senior veterinary students for the 2019-2020 school year. The externships are two weeks in length and take place in...
March 13, 2019 — [AASV]
Members of AASV attending the annual meeting make a substantial investment in the form of registration fees, travel, lodging, meals, and potential loss of income while away from work. However, the...
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Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues