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Coronavirus Prevention & Control for Farms

Joanna Cummings Farm Visitors, Risk assessment, Risk Communication

​The United States is confronting an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that causes serious respiratory disease and may be deadly for older people and those with weakened immune systems. The World Health Organization is now calling the outbreak a global pandemic because it is affecting countries all over the world. People and organizations can fight coronavirus by taking steps to …

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Domino Effect of the African Swine Fever Outbreak

Meg Stevens Animal Health, Livestock diseases, Risk Communication

What do you do when an uncontrolled virus is rapidly sweeping the world’s largest pork producer, killing millions of pigs? Furthermore, how do you make people who are removed from the problem care about it? China is currently trying to answer these questions as they experience an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak, a huge threat to national and international biosecurity. …