Page 7 of articles about swine-diseases

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) to be vigilant in their inspection and monitoring of cross border trade of animal products as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) continue to pose health risks.

The disease has been detected on 7 pig farms, the last one with 1,600 susceptible animals.

The work provides an atlas that describes the possible roles of these components in the assembly of the viral particle, the viral genes expression and the entry of the virus into the host cell.

After a first detection in 2015, the SHIC has confirmed the reappearance of the disease.

The conference was attended by experts from the hunting community, scientists, the European Commission, EFSA, OIE, national authorities as well as key stakeholders from EU farming and pig meat sectors.

For 2019, the Commission decided to allocate about €154 million to the fight against animal diseases and infectious diseases of animals that can be transmitted to humans as well as to support plant pests surveys.

Besides intensifying wild boar hunting, Denmark has started to build a fence along the Danish-German border.

As 2019 gets underway, we see another year full of potential in global pork, with growth in production and demand in many parts of the world. Yet this is overshadowed by the uncertainty created by complex disease and trade issues, as can be read in the just-released RaboResearch report ‘Pork Quarterly Q1 2019: Another Uncertain Year – With More Complex Disease and Trade Issues’.

The proposed approach automatically translates data currently collected by Member States into a common language and stores them logically.

Above all, farmers and those working on holdings need to fully understand how to correctly implement the necessary measures.

This contingency plan describes how government, and operational partners, prepare for and respond to an exotic notifiable disease outbreak or incident.

The outbreak has affected a farm with 23 susceptible animals.