by Catriona Mackenzie | 18 Aug, 2020 | Biosecurity, Blog, News
ASF is an infectious disease of swine causing major losses in the swine industry worldwide. Early detection of ASF is challenging because of the wide range of non‐specific clinical signs produced and its relatively low contagiousness. Monitoring pig mortality is a...
by Anne Meyer | 30 Jul, 2020 | Events, News
The Ausvet team has just published a 5th article on the epidemiology of salmonid rickettsial septicaemia in Chile, based on work conducted with the Chilean government and salmon industry in the past few years. The article is freely available for download until...
by Catriona Mackenzie | 14 Apr, 2020 | Blog, Events, News
In the past few years, Ausvet has worked with government and industry in Chile to tackle one of the most important disease problems facing the Chilean salmon industry. Based on this work, an article entitled ‘Effectiveness of antimicrobial treatment of salmonid...
by Ben Madin | 25 Mar, 2020 | Blog, News, Updates
The COVID-19 pandemic leaves us all facing uncertainty that is unprecedented in modern times. As well as fears about the spread of the virus, the impacts of controls and reactions to these impacts is causing great concern for many people. Thankfully, we are seeing the...
by Catriona Mackenzie | 5 Mar, 2020 | Biosecurity, Blog, News, Updates
We have noticed a little confusion creeping into discussions about the use of zoning and compartmentalisation as responses to the African Swine Fever pandemic facing swine producers. Here is a quick explanation of the differences between zoning and...
by Catriona Mackenzie | 31 Jan, 2020 | Blog, News, Updates
We have had great interest in our recently published White Paper dealing with the creation of disease-free compartments as a way to ensure business continuity for pork producers in the face of African Swine Fever. The paper has been downloaded over 460 times in the...