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The risk that African swine fever is endemic in Georgia, Armenia and Russian Federation has increased from moderate to high since 2010.

China, the world's largest consumer of pork, has asked the USDA to conduct testing and provide certification that live hogs come from herds that are free of porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PED, virus.

Last week’s number down to 270. This maintains the general downward trend in positive case submissions.

USDA announces $20 million effort to reduce damage caused by feral swine.

From April 7, 2014 temporary restrictions on importation of finished pork products from the plants of the Republic of Lithuania and Republic of Poland into the Russian Federation are being imposed.

Last 25th March the virus was detected in 15 animals on a farm with fattening pigs that had had contact with the infected farm in Lucerne.

Following evaluation of the documentation submitted by Lithuania, that Member-State should be declared officially brucellosis-free.

After the implementation of the contingency plan in the department of El Cesar, the ICA has confirmed and verified that the disease has been controlled and eradicated.

FDA is encouraged by the response thus far and will continue to monitor ongoing participation and provide public updates on a periodic basis.

The negotiations were considered constructive and the parties believed it was reasonable to coordinate their positions on veterinary and phytosanitary trade measures.

According to Rabobank, if the virus continues at its current rate, the shortfall to US slaughter in 2014 could be as much as 15 million hogs.

We have observed significantly fewer cumulative new breaks thru December.

These are the first confirmed cases of SDCV in Canada.