Keeping African swine fever from entering the US has been priority one for the pork industry since the first case was identified in China in August 2018.
But, Indiana state veterinarian Dr. Bret Marsh says that doesn’t mean producers can relax when it comes to looking for signs of other foreign animal diseases. “There are a lot of diseases globally we don’t want here in the United States,” he says. “Foot and mouth disease, classical swine fever – so we’ve approached it from the standpoint that this is an all hazards approach.
