Colombia: the FAO carries out a workshop on the methodology of the disease load due to the FBDs
The goal is to strengthen the national system for the management of the food innocuousness.
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Clinical case: Sudden increase in stillborn piglets and suckling pigs mortality
The litter size of the recent and the last farrowing batches was significantly reduced, and the suckling pigs showed an obvious varying weight, condition and viability.
Simultaneous PCV2 and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae co-inoculation does not potentiate disease in conventional pigs
Under the conditions of the present study, concurrent inoculation of PCV2 and Mhyo did not result in potentiation of clinical signs and lesions attributed to either infection.
Detection of tick Ornithodoros moubata, which transmit the African swine fever to pigs
The method, based on the detection of antibodies to the TSGP1 protein, could help to localize the tick populations and, especially, to obtain a risk map of African swine fever.
New neonatal porcine diarrhoea: aspects on etiology
The results obtained suggest that E coli not is responsible for NNPD, as also previously concluded.
OIE: rising instability together with weak veterinary services pose a threat to world security
The quality of surveillance and response mechanisms for animal diseases varies from country to country, and in our globalized world weaknesses in one country pose a threat to all others.
Latvia: six new outbreaks of classical swine fever in wild boars
Totally 20 wild boars were detected seropositive with Ab ELISA test.
Infectious risk factors for individual postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) development in pigs from affected farms in Spain and Denmark.
The present study reflects the complex interaction among different pathogens and their effects in order to trigger PMWS in PCV2 infected pigs.
Protecting pigs against a lethal ASFV challenge by using DNA vaccines
The last results clearly demonstrate the possibility of protecting pigs against a lethal ASFV challenge by using DNA vaccines encoding 3 of the viral antigens.
Italy: European aid for the Sardinian pig farms
The EU approves aids for the pig farms subject to restrictions due to the health measures imposed for the control of the ASF.
A new discovery in the virulence mechanisms of the porcine pathogen Haemophilus parasuis
CReSA’s researchers have found that H. parasuis can utilize the sialic acid from the host to avoid recognition by the immune system and be able to cause disease.
Updating on the epidemiology of PCV2 and implications
Novelties about the excretion routes, the transmission routes, the risk factors, etc., and explanation about how the PCV2 becomes a pathogenic virus.
Switzerland detects sows infected with PRRS
The virus was introduced in Switzerland through the importation of semen of infected boars from Germany.
Taiwan confirms an outbreak of foot and mouth disease
During the routine active FMD serological surveillance, NSP antibodies were detected on one pig farm located in Dongshih Township (Yun-Lin).
EU earmarks €199 million to support measures to combat animal diseases and zoonoses
Overall 137 programmes have been selected for EU funding to tackle animal diseases that impact on human and animal health as well as trade.
Russia imposes temporary restrictions on swine product supplies from Latvia
The restrictions were imposed due to the outbreak of Classical Swine Fever in Latvia.