Government and in­­dustry leaders last week pledged a maj­­or effort to track and control the devastating porcine epidemic diarrhea virus or PEDV.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines a federal order requiring the reporting of new detections of PEDV and the porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) to the U.S. Department of Agri­culture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) or state...