Livestock: Prevention Over Reaction - Building Biosecurity Systems That Actually Work at Scale

The tools to prevent most major livestock disease incursions exist. Yet HPAI continues to devastate US poultry at hundreds of millions per outbreak, and PRRS circulates persistently through the most biosecure swine systems in the world. Proven prevention technologies are routinely undermined by compliance failures, regulatory delays, trade policy, and growing institutional skepticism.

The challenge is not innovation. It is the gap between what prevention can do scientifically and what it consistently achieves operationally. This session will explore why prevention so consistently fails between design and deployment, and what it takes to build biosecurity systems that actually hold at commercial scale.