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Posted: 5:48 p.m. Monday, July 21, 2014
Butler County a site for two-state study on influenza in pigs
By Hannah Poturalski
Staff Writer
BUTLER COUNTY ?
Hundreds of pigs and about 50 youth exhibitors at the Butler County Fair are participating in a veterinarian study this week.
Butler County is one of eight fairs ? four in Ohio and four in Indiana ? getting ?intensive sampling? this year by a group of researchers from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, said Andrew Bowman, assistant professor in the department of veterinary preventive medicine at OSU.
An additional 52 fairs are having their pigs tested at the end of the fair.
Bowman said a long-term surveillance project ? now in its sixth year ? collects nasal samples from pigs at county fairs in order to study the spread of influenza and the best ways to prevent the flu...
Posted: 5:48 p.m. Monday, July 21, 2014
Butler County a site for two-state study on influenza in pigs
By Hannah Poturalski
Staff Writer
BUTLER COUNTY ?
Hundreds of pigs and about 50 youth exhibitors at the Butler County Fair are participating in a veterinarian study this week.
Butler County is one of eight fairs ? four in Ohio and four in Indiana ? getting ?intensive sampling? this year by a group of researchers from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, said Andrew Bowman, assistant professor in the department of veterinary preventive medicine at OSU.
An additional 52 fairs are having their pigs tested at the end of the fair.
Bowman said a long-term surveillance project ? now in its sixth year ? collects nasal samples from pigs at county fairs in order to study the spread of influenza and the best ways to prevent the flu...