Swine news - Pig health

The objective is to prevent pigs from contracting one or more diseases by adopting specific status and controls.

Overall, there were 1,191 or 0.32% of non-compliant samples out of the 368,594 targeted samples in 2019.

In a video conference, the Animal Health Troika exchanged views on the way forward in the fight against African swine fever.

OIE-WAHIS will make information about animal health more easily available and usable to everyone who needs it.

The first outbreak of ASF in domestic pigs in 2021 has affected a farm with nearly 16,000 animals.

The total number of African swine fever cases in Brandenburg and Saxony reaches 812.

Vietnam will follow a timeline to phase out the preventative use in livestock of antibiotics that are medically important for humans.

USDA and CFIA establish a protocol to minimize trade disruptions in the event of an ASF detection in feral swine.

Favorable results from the OIE technical analysis will be voted upon in May.

The South Korean government is actively promoting measures to prevent the spread of African swine fever in wild boar.

The National Reference Laboratory has confirmed the presence of African swine fever in a wild boar carcass found in the northern Oder meadows area in the city of Frankfurt.

The need to jointly address the epizootic wellbeing of the country, including the expansion of Russia's export potential, was voiced during the event.

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Estonia requests recognition of free status while Italy and Portugal seek approval of their Aujesky's disease eradication programmes.

EFSA has devised surveillance strategies that will help countries affected by African swine fever (ASF) to determine when the virus has stopped circulating among their wild boar populations.

The guidelines detail specific requirements and provide guidance on key aspects of the compartmentalisation process, including a set of applicable tools to facilitate the implementation and recognition of compartments.

Recent progress in reducing antibiotic use in animals has prompted Belgium to set new targets.

Pig farms saw the most reduction in antibiotic use.

Antimicrobial resistance in animal bacterial pathogens represents a gap in the European One Health strategy on AMR surveillance. EARS-Vet could complement the existing European monitoring systems.

This is the first time ASF has been diagnosed in the Western Cape Province following recent outbreaks in the Free State, Eastern Cape Province and Gauteng.

The number of reported human cases of illness caused by Campylobacter and Salmonella bacteria across Europe appears to be stabilising over the past five years.

Singapore has worked on a regionalization arrangement for ASF, allowing imports of pork from certain areas of Germany.

Outbreaks of African swine fever have occurred for the first time in Malaysia. Domestic pigs and wild boar affected.

The National Reference Laboratory, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, detected ASF for the first time in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in a wild boar.