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The OIE informed yesterday on the subclinical infection of Aujeszky disease on two French farms.

EU veterinary experts have decided to upgrade the health status of several member states. the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCOFCAH) agreed to declare Slovenia an Aujesky-free member state, while Poland and Spain were also upgraded to a regime of "special trade rules" aimed at consolidating progress made to date.

According to declarations made by the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and Food of Mexico, Francisco Mayorga Castañeda, it is foreseen that within the current year they will invest more than 554 million pesos in animal health and aquaculture, focused mainly on health campaigns, among others, against Aujeszky disease in pigs.

Ireland has submitted supporting documentation to the Commission as regards the Aujeszky’s disease status of that Member State. A national control programmes for Aujeszky’s disease has been implemented in Ireland for several years.

The latest figures presented to the European Commission by the Polish veterinary authorities on the status of Aujeszky’s disease in Poland indicate that from a total of 16 regions, there are 8 with a prevalence of 0.5% while the other 8 have a prevalence of between 0.5% and 5%, while there are no zones with a prevalence of over 5%.

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, is delighted to announce that Ireland has achieved an important EU milestone in receiving official recognition of our Aujeszky's disease control and eradication status.

The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and Food (SAGARPA), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Federal District Government signed a collaboration agreement of in the matter of animal health with the aim of working together in the training, education and modernization of veterinarians.

On 29 Dec 2009, Aujeszky's disease was officially confirmed in a hunting dog in the district of Wittenberg. This is the 1st finding of this notifiable disease in an animal in Saxony-Anhalt since 1997. The dog had eaten offal from a hunted wild boar and fell ill with typical symptoms.

The European Commission adopted a financial package of €275 million to support programmes to eradicate, control and monitor animal diseases in 2010. The 224 annual or multi-annual programmes which were selected for EU funding will tackle animal diseases that impact both human and animal health.

Following the good results achieved in 2008, the program for the control and erradication of Aujeszky’s disease continues to progress favourably, in such away that only two local livestock regions, of the 495 regions that make up the Spanish state, present an average prevalence in reproduction herds of over 10%.

PORCIVIR is a project coordinated by CReSA for the study of swine viral diseases that have economic, sanitary and public health repercussions. PORCIVIR has an exclusive website available, in which you will be able to consult any information in relation to the project, including the last publications.

Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) State Veterinarian Dr. Dennis Hughes has been notified by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission of an investigation into a wild pig infected with pseudorabies in the Genoa area.