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North American PRRS Symposium: Emerging and Foreign Animal Diseases
2016-08-25 21:11:00| National Hog Farmer
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome is the most costly viral disease to ever face the swine industry. The PRRS symposium is further expanded to include emerging and foreign animal diseases, such as Seneca Valley virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, porcine circovirus-associated disease, African swine fever virus, classical swine fever virus and other high-consequence diseases of swine. Location Intercontinental Hotel and Downtown Marriott Chicago, IL United States 41° 52' 41.2104" N, 87° 37' 47.2728" W See map: Google Maps Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome is the most costly viral disease to ever face the swine industry. The PRRS symposium is further expanded to include emerging and foreign animal diseases, such as Seneca Valley virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, porcine circovirus-associated disease, African swine fever virus, classical swine fever virus and other high-consequence diseases of swine. Scientific topics include disease control, vaccines, pathogenesis, diagnostics, epidemiology and host genetics. Abstracts covering all of the above topics will be accepted. Students and postdocs presenting posters or talks will be eligible to apply for the David A. Benfield travel fellowship program. The meeting is held in conjunction with The Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases. read more
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