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Since the resurgence of the disease in December last year, there are already 121 confirmed outbreaks.

Part of the delegation visited the National Reference Laboratory, where they discussed the formation of working groups on animal health and, specifically, Foot and Mouth Disease.

At their first meeting, held at SENASA's headquarters, the Permanent Veterinary Committee of the Southern Cone (PVC) initiated the preparation of the Strategic Plan 2016-2020.

The overall objective of the project is to develop a comprehensive and sustainable regional network of knowledge and expertise, for the control and prevention of ASF.

FAO and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics team up to develop high tech tools to fight bird flu and other infectious diseases.

The European Union and FAO have stepped up efforts to assist countries to prepare for any possible outbreaks of devastating foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in cattle, sheep, goats and other animals, including in the Balkans.  

The temporary ban affects animals that may be susceptible to FMD and their products and by-products, coming from Chungcheongbuk-Do, Korea; Jiangsu, China; and Caprivi, Namibia.

The veterinary authorities of South Korea have confirmed the presence of FMD in 30 pigs.

The focus is located Sizhao (Dongtai, Dongdai, Jiangsu), with 34 susceptible animals and 4 cases.

The 26th Conference of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Regional Commission for Europe, attended by 53 Member Countries from the Region.

The state of foot-and-mouth disease in the north of Africa worsens with the notification of the first outbreak in Algeria (where the last outbreak had been notified in 1999), and the spreading of the disease to Tunisia.

Pathogen-specific surveillance for ASF/FMD during this 12 month pilot will be based on the collection of whole blood samples (ASF) and oral swabs (FMD) from domestic swine with higher risk of ASF and/or FMD exposure than the average swine.

The European Commission is sending, as an emergency response, a total of 1.1 million doses of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines to the Algerian and Tunisian authorities.

The parties discussed possibilities to conduct training in transboundary diseases for Russian specialists of West Eurasia involved in FMD roadmap under the EuFMD umbrella.

The focus is located in Lianghong company, Sihong (Suqian, Jiangsu), with 9 susceptible animals and 3 cases.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) gave its official recognition as a foot-and-mouth disease-free area in which vaccination is not performed to the region of Patagonia Norte A.