A Kansas State University researcher is developing tools to help U.S. pig farmers in the fight against African Swine Fever.
Megan Niederwerder says she’s researching how ASF would survive and transmit after it’s been detected on a U.S. farm. “What do we need to put in place? What protocols? What strategies? What tools do we have? If the virus enters the country for the most rapid eradication and elimination of the virus from the country and of course from the farm.”
She received a $513,000 two-year grant from the National Pork Board and the State of Kansas National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Fund.
