On 15th June 2018, Dr. Joaquim Segalés, researcher at IRTA-CReSA and associate professor of UAB, visited the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science of the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, SAAS (Shanghai, China). This institute, led by Dr. Huili Liu, is mainly engaged in research and technology developments such as breeding new species and hybridity advantages utilizing pig and poultry, forage feeding, livestock and poultry epidemic disease prevention, and environment protection.

After his attendance at the International Pig Veterinary Society congress in Chongquing (China), Dr. Segalés gave a conference on emerging and re-emerging pig diseases at SAAS and then he had the possibility to talk with different scientists working in the mentioned institute regarding different aspects of animal health, mainly swine diseases.

About the author of this post:

Joaquim Segales

Investigador del Programa de Sanitat Animal. IRTA-CReSA. Catedràtic de la UAB. joaquim.segales@irta.cat

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