Response of the National Biosurveillance Integration Center to the Emergence of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in the United States

Brown, Yandace K.; Blessington, Tyann

Without a formal response protocol by a single coordinating body, PEDV spread rapidly between states. Several sources have proclaimed that the emergence and spread of PEDV has awakened the U.S. livestock industry and governments to lapses in current biosecurity systems and the need to increase vigilance to avoid having other dangerous foreign animal diseases (FADs) enter the country. Though APHIS has been actively involved from the beginning of the PEDV emergence, the Federal Order has marked a more formalized and coordinated response, which NBIC predicts will exert greater control over the epidemic despite the predicted viral surge in the colder months.