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For CAS, the FMD status of the Republic of Paraguay concerns the entire region and threatens the achievement of the objectives outlined in the Hemispheric Plan for Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease.

At the initiative of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency a working meeting with the Turkish Veterinary Services was held in connection with the introduced control measures for FMD in the sanitary cordon of Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey.

The EU earmarked yesterday more than €203 million to support programmes to eradicate, control and monitor animal diseases and zoonoses, aiming to further strengthen the protection of human and animal health in 2012.

Five of two hundred pigs were found with vesicular lesions in Penghu animal quarantine establishment after they were transported into Penghu Island from Taiwan Island.

Australia does not have sufficient suitable human resources to manage anything other than a small foot-and-mouth incursion.

During the routine active FMD serological surveillance, NSP antibodies were detected on one pig farm.

Last week China's veterinary authorities informed the OIE of a new focus of foot and mouth disease.

Veterinary authorities in Kazakhastan have reported the FMD-related restriction measures on movement of animals.

There are currently 25 teams in the zone around the outbreak and in the surveillance zone and 13,333 blood samples.

Continuous surveillance is still ongoing to monitor FMD situation. Surveillance in pigs is namely passive.

The report described a single outbreak of FMD on a farm in the village of Duixu (Zhongda town, Lang, Linzhi).

The outbreak occurred within a fenced subzone in Ngamiland district, on the FMD vaccination zone.

The SENACSA (National Animal Health and Quality Service) of Paraguay has announced to the IOE detection of clinical signs consistent with foot and mouth disease in 13 cattle less than 24 months old.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is launching a new tool to help staff at meat processing plants recognise and respond to an incursion of foot and mouth disease in stock, as part of its preparedness for risk organisms.

The Chinese Veterinary Authorities sent follow-up report to the IOE informing about the appearance of a new outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in China.

The Veterinary Authorities of Kazakhastan have sent a report to the IOE informing about the appearance of an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease.