The Original BVD-PI Testing Laboratory

Vaccines are very efficient and critical components to the health of the world, as long as you use them correctly and know their limitations. The majority of...

It’s interesting to live in a world where a hidden assailant is lurking around waiting for its next victim. Even more interesting is that often enough, peopl...

COVID-19 is very infectious. One person can infect 2.5 people (R2.5). To make it simple, we’ll say one person can infect two other people (R2). Here is a pic...

Political views aside, COVID has a major economic impact. We have all felt it personally. Today I want to compare this economic impact to how BVDv effects ca...

We have learned a lot from COVID since it was first noticed in December. One puzzling thing is that some people can have it but be “Asymptomatic,” which mean...

In the news we have heard time and time again that you need to social distance in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is true, viruses don’t spread...

It is easy to get caught up chasing that single cure-all for health problems. The reality is that it takes a combination of good choices to improve health (b...

All of this coronavirus scare has us remembering a bad BVD break at Nortex Feedyard in 2008. There were two different strains isolated in two pens, a 1b stra...

There are many labs across the country that will pool samples, or offer to pool samples together in order to decrease the cost of testing. This is popular wi...

What do you do with a PI calf? This is a difficult question to answer but the first thing you need to do is quarantine the animal. In a noncompetitive enviro...

So how do so few cause such a major problem? The key to understanding this comes down to two factors. The first is knowing the amount of virus particles a PI...