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Seth Melson: Rotavirus ice cubes - efficacy and methods

Sep 05, 2022

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Video: Seth Melson: Rotavirus ice cubes - efficacy and methods

Rotavirus, without an effective commercial vaccine solution, continues to be a problem for the swine industry. Numerous methods have been tested to help develop immunity in piglets, one of which involves feeding rotavirus frozen into ice cubes to sows so that they will develop antibodies to the virus and pass those antibodies to her piglets through colostrum. In this episode, I talk with Seth Melson about his survey results evaluating industry standards for making these Rotacubes and his thoughts on what steps need to be taken to improve their effectiveness.