On a tiny, isolated island, USDA scientists prep for the pork-pocalypse
Scientists at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center are racing to develop a vaccine to inoculate U.S. herds against the disease. Once they leave the island, these vets will be certified Foreign Animal Disease Diagnosticians—and they’ll be the country’s first responders if an outbreak ever reaches U.S. soil. The pigs arrived a week or so before the vets descended on Plum Island for FADD School—the two-week course that mints new Foreign Animal Disease Diagnosticians.
Source: newfoodeconomy.org