A national biosecurity symposium Monday, Aug. 30, in Kansas City, Mo., will showcase biosecurity research and industry at Kansas State University and the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor. “Biosecurity: Our Regional and National Response” will be 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kansas City Convention Center. National and regional experts will discuss the challenges [...]
Through stacks of documentation and months of preparation, Kansas State University’s Biosecurity Research Institute is undergoing the extensive, multilayered process of gaining approval to study federally regulated select agent pathogens that threaten human and animal health as well as the food supply. “There’s a misperception that regulators will just come in and give a blanket [...]
Porcine circovirus associated diseases cost pig producers around the world hundreds of millions of dollars each year. That’s why K-State virologists Dick Hesse and Bob Rowland have been working to create new vaccines to tackle such complex diseases. “Circovirus and its associated diseases continue to emerge around the world,” Hesse said. “Both porcine reproductive and [...]
When it comes to animal disease outbreaks, Steve Henry, a practicing veterinarian from Abilene, knows from long experience that speed and accuracy in diagnosis, testing and treatment are essential in stopping a disease from spreading. That’s why Henry, who also is an adjunct professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at K-State, is looking forward to [...]
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit Kansas State University on Tuesday to highlight the importance of protecting the American food supply and agriculture economy from potential biological threats. Secretary Napolitano and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will tour K-State’s Biosecurity Research Institute and convene a briefing with K-State administrators, KBA president Tom Thornton, [...]
Kansas is lucky that a devastating wheat fungus isn’t threatening the state’s crops yet. Researchers at Kansas State University are getting $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to keep it that way. Barbara Valent, university distinguished professor of plant pathology, is leading a group of researchers to study the wheat blast fungus, a [...]