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In mid-September, the European Parliament is due to vote on a ban on the use in animals of antibiotics of importance in humans.

This investment will ultimately help prevent and minimize the negative impacts of COVID-19 and other emerging and zoonotic diseases on animal health, the economy, public health, and food security.

So far three ASF outbreaks on pig farms have been reported in 2021.

OIE data show positive samples were found in backyard farms in April.

A total of 22 organizations from 18 Latin American countries have formed a continent-wide committee to prevent the entry of African swine fever into the region.

The authorities are going to intervene in the backyard farms in these provinces to prevent further spread of the disease.

Following the confirmation of African swine fever (ASF) positive pigs in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Colombia have taken extreme sanitary measures to prevent the introduction of this serious disease.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed African swine fever (ASF) in samples collected from pigs in the Dominican Republic through an existing cooperative surveillance program.

The Department of Agriculture has allocated PHP41.6 million for 18 localities and the province of Pangasinan that were affected by ASF.

So far this year, 11 cases of African swine fever have been reported in eight provinces.