Bovine viral diarrhea

Then when we get later on, we're probably going to be thinking about our injectable vaccines.

And one of the big reasons is because we need that BVD.

There's not BVD in our intranasals.

So the injectable vaccines are really important to make sure we're getting that BVD on board before weaning.

And there's lots of really cool research happening.

Nathan Erickson at the University of Saskatchewan is one person doing a lot of cool work trying to better understand how we put those two pieces together in terms of like the early intranasals and the later injectables.

My name is Kerry Lonergan and this is the podcast for all things beef.

Today, one of the nasties of the multi-billion dollar Australian beef industry, the affliction known widely as Pestivirus or BVDV, Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus.

MLA's official cost estimate to our beef industry, $100 million a year.

Our guest today is a veterinarian who has made BVDV almost a special project in his professional life.

From a place called Wild Horse in the American state of Colorado via Esperance in Western Australia, Dr. Enoch Bergman.

Enoch, welcome.

How are you?

Well, later on, Enoch will be my guest to chat about avian bird flu and other subjects.