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FMD threat in contaminated feed
Researchers are simulating feed contamination to better understand Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) threats to the U.S. livestock industry.
Scott Dee with sow management company Pipestone System—based in southwest Minnesota—says foreign disease vulnerabilities stemming from feed contaminants were exposed during the PEDv outbreak.
“If contaminated feed is consumed by naive pigs they can get infected, (which) we demonstrated. Then we developed a model that showed if the ingredient is right, the virus can live in a simulation from Beijing to Des Moines.”
While PEDv cases have diminished significantly, Dee tells Brownfield more testing shows Foot and Mouth Disease could enter the U.S.
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