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Significantly Fewer PRRS Breaks Reported this Winter

2014-03-21 17:47:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: American Association of Swine Veterinarians Outbreaks of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus seem to have slowed during the winter of 2013-2014, according to those monitoring the disease. Steven Tousignant, DVM, with the National PRRS Incidence Project at the University of Minnesota, says the 2013-2014 PRRS epidemic season continues to be surprisingly different than previous seasons. Using the previous four years as a baseline to analyze for the expected number of breaks, he indicates that significantly fewer cumulative new PRRS breaks have been observed through December 2013 (p = 0.0002). read more

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Third PED Outbreak Reported in Kochi Prefecture

2014-03-21 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

JAPAN - A third outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) has been confirmed in Kochi prefecture on the island of Shikoku.

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More quakes reported near fracking well

2014-03-14 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Columbus Dispatch: Geologists say there were 12 earthquakes near an active fracking well in northeastern Ohio four last week and eight this week. The earthquakes all have similar wavelengths, said Won Young-Kim, a senior scientist who runs a regional earthquake monitoring network at Columbia University in New York. He said last weeks epicenters appear to be within a mile of the largest a magnitude 3.0 earthquake that occurred on Monday morning near Lowellville in Mahoning County and not far from dozens...

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