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SUMMARY:Area Coordinated Disease Control:  Tools\, methods and collaborati
 ons targeting PRRS in the US  - Dr Dale Polson\, Boehringer-Ingelheim Vetm
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CONTACT:Anna Davies
DESCRIPTION:For the past 20 years In the US\, we have learned a great deal
  about PRRS and PRRS virus.  However\, the nature of our learning has chan
 ged significantly in recent years – expanding beyond the organism and th
 e disease\, to encompass directly the scope and scale with which we approa
 ch both\, as well as indirectly how we approach the behavior of the indivi
 duals and communities responsible for effectively managing PRRS.  \n\nPRRS
  has been an unrelenting and unforgiving educator\, and we have all too of
 ten been poorly engaged students.  As a national industry\, we have done (
 and continue to do) many things wrong in terms of the methods we utilize\,
  the processes we employ and in their execution.  However\, through this p
 ainful and slow learning process of confronting PRRS we believe we have be
 gun to do more things right. We have identified and begun to apply promisi
 ng ways to more effectively measure and manage PRRS\; one of the most prom
 ising being the implementation and scaling of a collaborative and coordina
 ted area- and network-based approach. \n\nFor too long we’d broken the "
 rules" of good management at all levels but had gotten away with it\, unti
 l PRRS.  We’ve wasted considerable resources trying to drown the problem
 (s) with antibiotics and vaccines without first correcting our management 
 rule breaking habits.  We believed that modern pig flow and management met
 hods could effectively separate pigs from all meaningful diseases\, includ
 ing PRRS.  We were naïve\, but we’ve been emerging from our naiveté.  
  \n\nWe continue to learn the importance of and effective execution of ris
 k detection\, management and mitigation within sites\, within areas and ac
 ross networks.  We are learning better ways for the detection and characte
 rization of PRRS\, as well as the cost of doing so poorly.  We have realiz
 ed that\, to understand and effectively manage PRRS for any one pig produc
 er\, we must understand and effectively manage PRRS for a critical mass of
  producers and their pig sites/populations\, be they proximal neighbors or
  distant but connected.  \n\nWe’re taking better advantage of available 
 tools like the AASV Production Animal Risk Assessment Program (PADRAP) and
  the UC-Davis CADMS Disease BioPortal.  We’re better leveraging developi
 ng tools like oral fluid sampling\, PCR and genetic sequencing to understa
 nd and track virus emergence\, transmission and circulation within and amo
 ng sites\, as well as within and among areas and networks.  We’re learni
 ng the hard way that more intensive and continuous communication\, coopera
 tion\, coordination and collaboration – interdependence – is showing d
 istinct advantages for each of us individually and all of us collectively\
 , appearing to be superior to our traditional predisposition for isolation
  and independence.  \n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Department of Veterinary Medicine
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