Page 100 of articles about swine-diseases

A total of 375 pig producers have been surveyed to date by veterinary surgeons as part of the Yorkshire and Humberside Health programme. Almost all have given their vets permission to record whether or not four important diseases are present on their units.

Transmissible Gastroenteritis, a viral disease that affects only swine, has been identified on one farm with two sites located in South Central Manitoba.

European pig vets have decided to set up a new association, the European Association of Porcine Health Management (EAPHM).

In a final report submitted to the OIE, Hong Kong notifies that foot and mouth disease events of serotype O having started in February 2010 are resolved.

In a follow-up report submitted to the OIE, Japan notifies 86 foot and mouth disease outbreaks of serotype O occurred in the Miyazaki region.

Fearing impacts from the blue ear disease, Vietnam is now in favour of imported pork.

The Philippines has inched closer to being declared entirely free of the highly contagious Foot and Mouth Disease plaguing hogs after the Department of Agriculture (DA) last month secured a certification from Paris-based Office International des Epizooties (OIE) recognizing two of the three zones (Zones 1 and 3) in Luzon as FMD-free without vaccination.

ARS scientists and cooperators have detected, for the first time, more than 700 genes that give microbes like Salmonella and E. coli the ability to resist antibiotics and other antimicrobial compounds

Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has urged the northern province of Bac Giang to take swift action in containing blue-ear disease that has infected over 3000 pigs.

Following the seminar on animal disease surveillance held in the framework of the Working Party of Chief Veterinary Officers hosted by the Spanish Presidency, the Working Party adopted CVO conclusions which delegations will find attached to this note.

The Dutch Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Gerda Verburg, declared at the end of a recent government meeting that the use of antibiotics in livestock will have to be reduced by half in the next three years to reach the levels of 1999, and at least by 20% in 2011.

According to the national coordinator of the CSF program of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (Maga), David Orellana, the OIE have announced that Guatamala is once again a country free of classic swine fever.