Both eyes wide open! 👀

🇺🇲🦠 One on the virus, and the other on the countermeasures! The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) is emphasizing the importance of biosecurity and biocontainment to help fight the spread of the PRRS Lineage 1C variant, continuously detected in some eastern and midwestern US states. 

     • A potential risk factor for this pattern of dissemination could be associated with different industry channels such as cull sow markets as well as animal transportation coming back from packing plants – that's why understanding the epidemiology of the virus and monitoring the animals while they're being transported is key. For more information, just click here.