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OIE has reported a case of African Swine fever in Namibia. Part of the country is considered endemic for ASF. Pigs must be raised in bio-secure pens to avoid contact with wild warthogs. The date of the previous occurrence was 12/11/2008.

A bid by farmers to claim damages following the 2007 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak has been dismissed. The seven remaining farmers’ claims, in the National Farmers’ Union-backed legal case, were dismissed on 31 March, when judgment was handed down following a hearing in the High Court in February. A further seven claims had already been settled without an admission of liability.

A new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been reported in Sichuan province.

On 16 February 2009, the Government of Philippines announced that a slaughterhouse worker who has daily contact with pigs tested positive for antibodies against the Ebola Reston virus. This brings to six, out of a total of 141 people, who have tested positive for Ebola Reston antibodies in the Philippines since testing began in December 2008. All six people who were antibody positive reported occupational exposure to pigs.

The OIE has informed about the presence of foot-and-mouth virus in Singang Township.

Foot-and-mouth disease in livestocks has recently broken out in another northern province Bac Giang of Vietnam, according to Vietnam's Animal Health Department of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Friday.

Its official: the swine industry of this southern port city is free from the Ebola Reston virus. Mayor Celso Lobregat declared so, citing that tests yielded negative of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), Pseudo Rabies Virus (PRV) and Swine Influenza Virus (SIV-H1N1).

The OIE has informed about the presence of foot-and-mouth virus serotype Asia 1 in Inner Mongolia (Sumitu Sumu, Etuoke, E'erduosi).

The OIE has informed about de reoccurrence of classical swine fever (CSF) in a modern pig farm owned by a federal university, located in Mossoró (Rio Grande Do Norte). Quarantine measures are applied on the farm. The outbreak is located outside the area declared as free of classical swine fever. Vaccination remains prohibited in the outbreak area as well as throughout the country.

The Spanish government have passed new normatives with the aim of stabilizing the zones which have reached a very low prevalence of Aujeszky’s disease, and of continuing to advance the qualification of herds in order to increase the territory which is free from the disease. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Danish Crown's slaughterhouse in Horsens has been temporarily closed following fears that a pig sent to slaughter may have been suffering from highly contagious swine fever. The pig was from a farm near Århus. There are relatively frequent swine fever fears in Denmark, but the country has not seen an outbreak of the disease since 1933.

Comission Decision of 20 March 2009 amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the eradication and emergency vaccination plans for classical swine fever in feral pigs in certain areas of the Federal States of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Blue-ear pig disease has spread to new areas of the central Quang Nam province of Vietnam, said the Animal Health Department of Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday. The epidemic has struck pig herds in 31 communes of four districts of the province, said the department.