Is PCV2 changing?

Welcome to “Talkin’ About Pigs” – a podcast where individuals from the Swine Medicine Education Center (SMEC) discuss swine health topics over coffee. Each podcast episode covers a different swine health topic of interest to pork producers. All topics are generated from pork producer questions! We keep the topic producer oriented, with the goal of bringing pork producers relevant information that they can bring back to the farm.Today’s podcast covers the question: Is PCV2 changing? Publications discussed in the podcast can be found at the links below.

• Bivalent vaccine research: https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13567-022-01029-w
• Swine Disease Reporting System: https://fieldepi.research.cvm.iastate.edu/sdrs/

Stay tuned for more swine health podcasts, geared towards pork producers! If you have difficulty accessing any of the referred materials, or if you have a swine health related question you would like featured on the podcast – please email us at isusmec@iastate.edu. Please put “SMEC Podcast Question” in the title of your email to ensure we receive it.