Page 35 of articles about swine-diseases

The ICA (Colombian Agriculture and Livestock Institute) has established as compulsory the vaccination against CSF in the departments of Atlántico, Bolívar, Córdoba, La Guajira, Magdalena, Sucre and some municipalities of Cesar and Norte de Santander.

This is the first outbreak of the disease since 1996.

According to the testing results of affected farms from regional and national laboratories, 34 pig farms were confirmed being infected with PEDV.

The SAGARPA (Ministry of Agriculture, Stockbreeding, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food) and the Mexican pig production chain are carrying out different actions for the recognition of the pig health status in Mexico and the export markets expansion.

A dead pig (a 5-month-old male showing clinical signs similar to African swine fever) was delivered to the National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute from a backyard farm (with 2 pigs).

The OIE has informed about the confirmation of a total of 22 new ASF outbreaks in Latvia that affect both wild boars and domestic pigs.

The European Commission is sending, as an emergency response, a total of 1.1 million doses of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines to the Algerian and Tunisian authorities.

Under this proposed rule, such pork and pork products would have to be derived from swine raised on farms meeting stringent sanitary and biosecurity requirements.

The number of PEDv cases in the country since the first outbreak in October has reached more than 800, this is around 15% of all pig farms.

After a period of four days when the country's borders were closed to Lithuanian pork products, the Veterinary and Food Board lifted the ban.

Yesterday in Vilnius, Baltic agriculture ministers discussed the spread of African swine fever and decided to draft an action plan by August 15 and putting in a request to the European Commission for funding.

The cancelation of the NOM-037-ZOO-1995 norm is due to the fact that on 30 January 2009, the whole of the Mexican territory was declared free of the CSF virus.

Once again, the Latvian veterinary authorities have informed the OIE of the appearance of 9 new outbreaks of African swine fever in the country.