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Foot-and-mouth disease was found in eastern China's Shanghai, said the Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday.

All pork products from Philippine already at Chinese ports should be turned back or destroyed, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ) said in anon-line announcement here on Wednesday.

An outbreak of cholera killed at least 240 pigs in the southern Philippine province of North Cotabato, a health official reported yesterday.

The death of 1,056 pigs in Hongdong County in north China's Shanxi Province was caused by blue-ear disease, local authorities said Monday.

The Veterinary Department has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in northern Hoa Binh province. As of February 5, the country has had four provinces infected with foot-and-mouth disease: Long An (less than 19 days), Kon Tum, Son La and Hoa Binh (all less than 21 days).

The outbreak occurred in 40 calves. An epidemiological investigation is ongoing. The calves showed signs as salivation and fever.

Last week the Mexican Minister of Agriculture, Alberto Cárdenas, officially stated that there is no CSF in Mexico. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Leo Cañeda, Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Executive Director for Eastern Visayas, has confirmed that laboratory tests have shown that the cause of death of hogs in Sta. Rita town in Samar province was not due to hog cholera but from Salmonella infection.

The OIE has informed about de reoccurrence of foot and mout disease (serotype Asia 1) and a new strain of the disease (serotype A) in China.

The first study documenting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in swine and swine workers in the United States has been published by University of Iowa researchers. For the study, investigators analyzed nasal swabs of 299 swine and 20 swine workers from two different production systems in Iowa and Illinois. At Production System A, the overall prevalence of MRSA was 70 percent in swine and 64 percent in workers. At Production System B, all swine and human samples were negative for MRSA.

The Department of Health confirmed that one farm worker in the Philippines has been infected with Ebola-Reston antibodies, officials announced Friday. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) said this is likely an old infection contracted more than six months ago. The person is healthy and has had no serious illness in the past 12 months, said Dr. Enrique Tayag, director of the Department of Health's National Epidemiology Center.

Over the last few months there is evidence the disease, which has been relatively quiet for some time, has started to increase, with pockets of disease expanding particularly in the pig dense area of East Anglia, and north-east England.

The outbreak concerned an extensive cattle farm with pigs for self- consumption (23 animals). The animals were destroyed on 27 September 2008. After the sanitation process, sentinels were introduced; they did not show clinical signs and were negative in the serological tests. On 26 December 2008, sentinels were slaughtered and no anatomopathological signs were detected. Quarantine measures were lifted. To date, no further outbreaks of classical swine fever have been detected in the State of Maranhao.

New cases of African swine fever have been detected in Stavropol.