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A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] was reported Thursday [8 Apr 2010] from a cattle farm on an island off the western coast of South Korea, the farm ministry said.

Efforts to protect the nation from potentially catastrophic animal diseases will continue with a $21 million package from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to Texas A&M University and Kansas State University. The monies will support the homeland security department's Center of Excellence for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense at the universities through 2016.

Ukrainian authorities have banned the import of pork from Russia's Southern, Central, and Volga federal districts.

COMMISSION DECISION of 29 March 2010 amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the eradication and emergency vaccination plans for classical swine fever in feral pigs in certain areas of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland- Palatinate (Germany).

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) made official the decision to restore the certification of “foot-and-mouth free” for Columbia, after examining the petition presented by the organisation in charge of animal health for this South American country.

The South Korean government declared the country Tuesday is clear of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), after a series of outbreaks since January this year dented the domestic dairy industry.

Following a request from The European Commission, the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on African Swine Fever and to assess: • the significance of the occurrence and risk of endemicity of ASF in the countries neighbouring the EU • the possibility of ASF becoming endemic in domestic pigs and to maintaining itself in a wild boar population in the EU, keeping in mind the differences in virulence of ASF virus strains, in particular the virus strains which are now endemic in the Caucasus region; • the role played by vectors in the spread and the maintenance of ASF and provide geographical information and maps of Member States displaying the geographical distribution of Ornithodoros erraticus as well as other potential invertebrate hosts.

A field study with a vaccine against the pork tapeworm, in spite of its name one of the tapeworms affecting humans, was able to break the infection cycle. It is the first time a vaccine against a parasite can eliminate transmission. The study was carried out in Cameroon by Emmanuel Assana, researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp.