The Swine Health Blackbelt Podcast - Berenice Munguía-Ramírez: Active Participatory Surveillance | Ep. 178

In this episode of The Swine Health Blackbelt Podcast, Berenice Munguía-Ramírez, a PhD candidate at Iowa State University, explores the role of active participatory surveillance in early disease detection and control within the swine industry. She explains its potential to identify both emerging and endemic pathogens before widespread outbreaks occur. Learn how producer participation and surveillance frequency can influence disease detection. Listen now on all major platforms!

What will you learn: 

• Active surveillance value
• Disease detection timing
• Sampling frequency impact
• Producer participation importance
• Simulation modeling insights

Meet the guest:

Berenice Munguía-Ramírez holds a DVM from the Institute of Technology of Sonora, an M.S. in Veterinary Preventive Medicine from Iowa State University, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Iowa State. Her research focuses on improving diagnostics for swine diseases using oral fluids and swine epidemiology.
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