Evaluation of the risk of a feed mill being contaminated with PEDV or PDCoV

摘要

With the outbreak of PEDV and PDCoV in the United States, many questions have arisen concerning the movement of the viruses throughout the United States. One area of interest was the involvement of transport vehicles onto farms. A common transport vehicle that visits multiple farms in a day is the feed truck. With both feed trucks and staff returning from farms and incoming ingredient trucks delivering feedstuffs, the question is what is the risk of various areas of the mill to be found positive foreither virus on any given day. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the risk of key areas in the mill of testing positive foreitherPEDVorPDCoV.