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It was approved at the General Session on 26 May that five veterinary laboratories of China were designated as OIE Reference Laboratories.

South Korea will launch a new unified quarantine agency to handle farm and fisheries products in an effort to strengthen the country's ability to protect public health and local industries from animal and plant diseases, the government said Tuesday.

ASFV genetic material was detected in the samples of pathological material taken from a pig in the backyard in the Danilovskoe village, the Kalininsky Rayon, the Tver Oblast by the FGI “Tver Interoblast Veterinary Laboratory”.

The Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB) is pleased that funding to continue its programming was included in the Federal Budget released earlier today. Funding hadbeen announced in the March 22nd Budget which did not pass because ofthe election call.

An increase in the morbidity/mortality has been observed in the area of Amphur Ban-Ra-Kam (Phitsanulok province) and PRRS is suspected based on clinical signs.

The Department of Animal Health and Livestock Development under Mzuzu Agricultural Development Division says a suspected outbreak of African swine fever has occurred in Rumphi and Mzimba Districts putting at risk a total of 92,000 pigs.

Two days after notification of the first outbreak of Classic Swine Fever (June 1, 2011), the Lithuanian Veterinary Service has confirmed the presence of the CSF virus on another two swine farms located in the same district as the first outbreak.

On 25 May 2011, two animals were reported by a farmer at Ramokgwebana crush with a history of salivation and lameness. On investigation by the FMD Emergency Alert Team, lesions were confirmed to be consistent with foot and mouth disease lesions.

Ukraine has banned imports of pigs and pork from Lithuania and the Central Federal District of Russia following an outbreak of classical swine fever and African swine fever there.

During the routine active FMD serological surveillance, NSP antibodies were detected on 2 pig farms located in Chang-Hua (Tianwei township; Yongjing township).

Pigs were found dead in a pig farm situated in the territory of one of the penal colonies in Torzhok, the Tver Oblast.

On 1st June 2011, in the central part of Lithuania, in the village of Šils, during an investigation in the pig farm of the joint-stock company “Beržs kompleksas”, an outbreak of classical swine fever (CSF) was confirmed by the National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute (NFVRAI), which is the designated National Reference Laboratory for CSF of Lithuania.

The OIE has reported a new outbreaks of african swine fever in Tanzania. The affected village is located in its southwest region of Mbeya.

The veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease, the first since 2007.