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264 audits are planned for the 2011 programme, corresponding to roughly 4,800 auditor days on the ground, travel time excluded.

The Russia Authorities have informed the European Union of a suspected case of African Swine Fever in Leningrad region (St Petersburg), near the EU border. Disease has been preliminarily confirmed by laboratory tests.

As of Tuesday, the foot-and-mouth epidemic has stricken 15 northern and central provinces of Vietnam.

The European Commission adopted last night urgent protection measures after a wild boar, which was shot by hunters at the end of 2010 in Bulgaria, tested positive to Food and Mouth Disease (FMD). The Commission's decision aims to reinforce control measures for FMD already taken by the competent Bulgarian authorities.

According to the OIE report, the German veterinary authorities have reported a new outbreak of Aujeszky's disease in two dogs.

South Korea on Monday decided to expand areas where vaccination will be administered in the face of the country's severest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the government said.

The European Commission has sent a consignment of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine to Zambia in order to help the African nation's efforts in fighting an outbreak of the disease in the northern part of the country. The consignment consists of 80,000 doses of FMD vaccine.

The German veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of Aujeszky's disease affecting dogs in Weimar-Land (Thuringen).

During its meeting last week, the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved a new Swine Medicine Education Center at Iowa State University.

Several top veterinary schools and research institutes in the United States and the United Kingdom have joined Chinese government departments to form an organisation to advance veterinary education and practices in the country, according to an official source in China. The China Veterinary Collaboration will work closely with local organisations, academia and industry leaders to bring the country's veterinary standards up to world levels.

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that first began in North Gyeongsang Province late last month is now spreading to north of Seoul.

African swine fever was registered in the territory of Bataisk for the first time.

According to the information that came from the Territorial Administration of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Krasnodarskiy Krai and the Republic of Adygeya, the ASF positive result was obtained in the Kropotkinskaya regional veterinary laboratory in the course of examination of a blood serum samples taken from diseased pigs kept in a personal subsidiary plot in the settlement Staroscherbinovskaya, the Scherbinovskiy Rayon, the Krasnnodarskiy Krai. The diagnosis was confirmed by the GSI ARRIVV&M on December 9, 2010.

The Rosselkhoznadzor imposed temporary restrictions on import of live pigs, boar semen, pork and raw porcine meat products as well as non-heat-treated porcine products from the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques from December 7, 2010 due to occurrence of Aujeszky’s disease in this department.