The 13th Asian PRRSpective and FLEXcitement online conference (Day 2)

The agenda on the second day is more diverse and rich. We am very grateful to Taiwan Boehringer Ingelheim for specially arranging instant interpretation for the audience in Taiwan. Even if it is an English course, we believe everyone can easily explore the subtleties between swine disease and vaccines with the masters.

Today’s lecturers gathered with stars. After the opening of Dr. Markus Hammer, Dr. Albert Vidal, Dr. Martin Pfützner and Dr. Mayenne Cheryl B. Dimacali, together with the two hosts Dr. Martin Forchieri and Dr. Fabio Paganini Video round table meeting to discuss the “Challenges in” modern pig production”. During the meeting, they mentioned reducing the use of antibiotics and preventing diseases with vaccines. They also paid attention to issues such as animal welfare and needle-free injections, as well as concepts such as the need to analyze and integrate a large amount of information in pig farming. The whole discussion surrounded the concept of 4P: People, Pig, Planet, Profit, very exciting.

​Next, the host Dr. Oliver Duran, together with 4 lecturers: Dr. Wei Lu, Dr. Drik Werling, Dr. Seth Krantz, and Dr. Nathaya Young, discussed "Why vaccines are not all the same", and not only mentioned how To develop safe and effective vaccines, but also to understand the role of vaccines through immunological mechanisms, the help brought by vaccines from practical experience, and during the COVID-19 global epidemic, we have never slackened vaccine prevention measures. Cut into the angle of the importance of vaccines for disease prevention.

After the intermission, the intensive course continued. Dr. Eva Joras and Dr. Minerva Vaquez first explained to everyone how “Every herd is different. A flexible approach to prevention", and then continued with the host Dr. Oliver Duran and Dr. Eva Joras, together with Dr. Pablo Pineyro, Dr. Enric Mateu, and Dr. Joaquim Segalés, introduce to everyone the “A novel vaccine combination: Controlling two major threats to your field”, emphasizing that CircoFLEX has once again adopted a brand new purification technology "DiaTek”, also proved that it will not affect the efficacy of the PRRS MLV, so it is absolutely feasible to use the two vaccines at the same time.
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​Finally, Dr. Tom Gillespie brings practical experience to everyone, explaining the “Benefit”s of flexible vaccination protocols in practice, emphasizing that select the right time and the right vaccine to maximize protection with limited number of handlings and vaccinations, to bring weaning pigs the best condition.

Register now to participate through the following page: https://bi-swine.virtualcc.events/