PRRS Projects Yield Mixed Results

2. Establish PRRS status based on published categories: PRRS positive, PRRS stable or PRRS negative. Of the 116 active sites, 58 are of known PRRS status, with continued PRRS monitoring to assess disease control methods in place. Twenty sites are routinely monitored and committed to being PRRS negative. These sites fund their own PRRS testing. The other sites and unknown status sites rely on funding from PRRS CAP or other funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support PRRS testing. "The project directors would like to discover why producers have a particular mindset toward PRRS and how to manage it," explains project leader Dyneah Classen, DVM, Carthage (IL) Veterinary Service, Ltd. "There are producers who individually prefer to control and eliminate the virus from their herds and would like to see regional elimination. There are producers who choose to live PRRS positive and ignore the cost. And there are producers who choose not to participate in PRRS control/elimination programs."