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May Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report Now Available

May 7, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder

The Swine Health Information Center's (SHIC) May Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report is available.

This month's Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report brings the new SDRS PCR dashboard. The new dashboard is a compilation of all the PCR data for the eight pathogens monitored by the project that will be publicly available, enabling our audience to look at the trends of detection over time by specimen, category, and geographic location. Also, the report brings information about the record of PRRSV ORF5 sequences detected as L1C.5 (variant) for the month of April (355). Since its emergence, L1C.5 has never had this amount of detection in a month, except in November of 2022 (405). The majority of the sequences were from wean-to-market sites (190). Also, some specific regions such as Iowa, South Dakota, Indiana, and Illinois have a PRRSV percentage of positive submissions above the expected. For enteric coronaviruses, PEDV and PDCoV positivity continued to decrease during April, achieving low levels of positivity, mainly PDCoV, with 3% of overall positive submissions. However, in the state-level monitoring, the overall positivity continues above the expected for PEDV in Kansas and PDCoV in Minnesota and Missouri. PCV3 substantially increased positivity for the sow farm category, where 63% of submissions were positive. At the ISU-VDL, there were consecutive alarms of the increased number of confirmed diagnoses for PRRSV in tissue cases.

Podcast hosts talked with Dr. Cameron Schmitt (Pipestone) about Influenza A virus monitoring and control strategies.

View the full report dashboards and listen to podcasts in the online portal. No login required.

The Swine Health Information Center, launched in 2015 with Pork Checkoff funding, protects and enhances the health of the US swine herd by minimizing the impact of emerging disease threats through preparedness, coordinated communications, global disease monitoring, analysis of swine health data, and targeted research investments. As a conduit of information and research, SHIC encourages sharing of its publications and research. Forward, reprint, and quote SHIC material freely. For more information, visit http://www.swinehealth.org or contact Dr. Megan Niederwerder at mniederwerder@swinehealth.org or Dr. Lisa Becton at lbecton@swinehealth.org. 

Megan Niederwerder, Executive Director, Swine Health Information Center