Swine news - Pig health

Personal imports for travellers from the EU remain banned.

Slovakia detects its first outbreak of African swine fever in 2025 on a commercial farm with more than 18,000 pigs.

Although FMD is endemic in the Near East, there has been a recent upsurge in outbreaks caused by an exotic serotype likely introduced from East Africa.

In the first four months of the year, the number of reported ASF cases in wild boar almost equaled the total number reported for all of 2024.

European Commission pledges extraordinary market support measure.

Preventive culling of 9,888 pigs on a neighboring farm after detection of the fifth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

A decade ago, Spain was among the countries with the highest consumption of antimicrobials in Europe, however, a voluntary initiative to reduce the use of colistin in the pig sector managed to reverse this trend and position the country as a benchmark in the responsible use of these drugs.

A fifth outbreak of the disease has been detected 60 km south of the last confirmed outbreak.

Germany is once again recognized as free of foot-and-mouth disease.

Located at Central Luzon State University, the center is set to become the leading agency for the diagnosis, surveillance, research, and technology development related to transboundary animal diseases.

These 68 new projects will increase the United States’ ability to rapidly respond to and control animal disease outbreaks.

Carbapenemase-producing bacteria, once mainly a hospital concern, are now being detected in food animals and food products across Europe.

In the first quarter of 2025, more than 4,400 cases have already been reported in wild boar and 168 in domestic pigs in 17 European countries. Poland, Germany, and Latvia lead in wild boar, while Romania and Moldova are concerned about the increase in domestic pig cases.

The new Decision identifies new protection and surveillance zones and additional restricted zones in Slovakia and Hungary, as well as additional surveillance zones and restricted zones in Austria.

For the first time, all the 27 countries of the European Union together with Iceland and Norway have collected and reported data on both sales and use of antimicrobials in animals in their countries.

Hungary has confirmed two new outbreaks of FMD and Slovakia confirms its fifth, bordering Austria and near the Czech Republic.

Trends in antimicrobial consumption by species and animal categories in Spain in 2023 and information for combating antimicrobial resistance.

The restriction zone established around this second outbreak, which involves more than 3,000 dairy cattle, covers a small part of Austrian territory.

Austria extends its surveillance zone after an FMD outbreak on a Hungarian dairy cattle farm with 3,000 animals near the Austrian border.

The Member States have agreed to implement an additional restriction zone with a radius of at least 50 km around the outbreaks.

Import ban amended following outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany.

The location of the new outbreak reinforces the possibility of long-distance airborne transmission, the most likely hypothesis.

The areas affected by African swine fever (ASF) are now down to 39 barangays.

As of March 12, 2025, Germany is considered free of foot-and-mouth disease, except for the so-called containment zone, a 6-kilometer radius around the outbreak near Hönow.