Page 19 of articles about Foot and mouth disease in Swine news

Since, on 6 October 2010, 3 months will have passed after the destruction of the last case, Japan will shortly apply to the OIE for recovery of status “Freedom from Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) without vaccination”, providing the dossier required to be evaluated by the Scientific Commission for Animal Disease (SCAD), in accordance with the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

South Korea will seek to resume exports of pork as the country has been declared free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Import of animals susceptible to FMD and non-heat treated products of animal origin to the Russian Federation will be restricted by the Rosselkhoznadzor from September 14, 2010 due to detection of FMD in cattle in Mongolia.

The Turkish livestock industry, recently on the agenda because of price hikes in meat imports, is now facing further difficulties in containing foot-and-mouth disease, or FMD.

Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru declared Friday an end to the foot-and-mouth epidemic that has severely hit livestock in the prefecture.

The Miyazaki prefectural government has lifted its state of emergency concerning foot-and-mouth disease, which had broken out among livestock in the prefecture. The state of emergency officially ended at midnight Monday and was announced shortly thereafter, in the early minutes of Tuesday morning, by Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru in front of the prefectural government building.

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance informs that the Rosselkhoznadzor imposes temporary restrictions on import of all species of animals susceptible to FMD, products thereof and raw materials obtained from these animals from the territory of the Akmolinskaya Oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation from 09.07.2010 due to occurrence of FMD in this territory.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Russia. Russia is suffering from its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since 2006.

A local government’s veterinary service found a cow showed typical clinical signs of FMD by surveillance on 4 July. The affected farm is in a movement control area around Miyazaki city. All susceptible animals in the farm were destroyed on 5 July.

The Canadian Swine Health Board says the pork industry can learn a lot from an incident last week in which operations at a Canadian pork processing plant were temporarily suspended over fears of foot and mouth disease.

The Taiwanese veterinary authorities informed of the appearance of a foot and mouth disease outbreak in the country. The focal point is located on a pig farm in the Baozhong Township of YUN-LIN, with 1296 susceptible animals, and 112 confirmed cases.

In two final reports submitted to the OIE, Korea (Rep.of) declares that foot and mouth disease events having started in April 2010 are closed.

After the detection of foot and mouth disease in Ecuador, the Peruvian and Colombian authorities have decided to suspend imports of animal products.

Due to an outbreak of FMD in the Akmolinskaya Oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation has taken several measures.

The Ecuadorian veterinary authorities have declared quarantine for the provinces of Imbabura, Manabí and Bolívar with the objective of avoiding the spread of a recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Kazakhstan.