“…The predicted linear relationships between age at time of infection and peak viremia as measured by virus isolation (dotted line) and RT ‐ PCR (solid line) are shown only for adolescent pigs. Data from adult pigs are shown on the right and suggest that there is a lower risk of PRRS virus transmission in pork harvested from adult pigs (Bloemraad et al., ; Duan et al., ; Cuartero et al., ; Greiner et al., , ,b; Martin and Steverink, ; Osorio et al., ; Shin and Molitor, ; Grebennikova et al., ; Johnson et al., ; Lohse et al., ; Truong et al., ; Wasilk et al., ; Petry et al., ; Cano et al., ; Gozio and Van Woensel, ; Lopez et al., ; Martelli et al., ; Opriessnig et al., ; Calzada‐Nova et al., , ; Loving et al., ; Mondaca‐Fernandez et al., ; Mulupuri et al., ; Costers et al., ; Klinge et al., ; Vanhee et al., ; Geldhof et al., ; Gomez‐Laguna et al., ; Karniychuk et al., ; Liu et al., ; Reiner et al., ; Dwivedi et al., ; Kim et al., ; Wang et al., ; Boddicker et al., ; Diaz et al., ; Han et al., ,b; Roca et al., ; Silva‐Campa et al., ; Wei et al., ).…”