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A local government’s veterinary service found a cow showed typical clinical signs of FMD by surveillance on 4 July. The affected farm is in a movement control area around Miyazaki city. All susceptible animals in the farm were destroyed on 5 July.

The veterinary authorities of Laos have informed the OIE about the first-time appearance of PRRS on pork farms in the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture issued another notice for animal disease prevention in flood-stricken areas, requiring local authorities to step up organization and guidance and implement prevention and control measures so as to prevent major animal diseases and zoonoses during and after the flood.

Livestock officers have inspected pig farms in various provinces following reports of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) that has killed a large number of pigs in Nong Khai province.

Nguyen Thanh Son, deputy director of the Department of Livestock Production spoke with Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) about pig farming after the outbreak of blue-ear pig disease.

EU veterinary experts have decided to upgrade the health status of several member states. the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCOFCAH) agreed to declare Slovenia an Aujesky-free member state, while Poland and Spain were also upgraded to a regime of "special trade rules" aimed at consolidating progress made to date.

The government with the Socialists, Socialist People's Party, Danish People's Party, Liberal Party and Unity signed a new four-year agreement on a continued effort to bacteria in food. There is allocated approx. 25 million kroner a year of effort, which is a strengthening relative to the previous action against Salmonella and Campylobacter. At the same time reinforced efforts against antibiotic resistant bacteria.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance intended to help reduce the development of resistance to medically important antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals. The draft guidance outlines the FDA’s current thinking on strategies to assure that antimicrobial drugs that are important for therapeutic use in humans are used judiciously in animal agriculture. The FDA acknowledges the efforts to date by various veterinary and animal producer organizations to institute guidelines for the judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, but the agency believes additional steps are needed.

The Canadian Swine Health Board says the pork industry can learn a lot from an incident last week in which operations at a Canadian pork processing plant were temporarily suspended over fears of foot and mouth disease.

The “SI RO Rostov Regional Veterinary Laboratory” tested the pathological material from died backyard pigs (Lesnoy settlement, the Kamenskiy Rayon) and Pravda household (the Konstantinovskiy Rayon) of the Rostovskaya Oblast. Positive results for African swine fever (further-ASFV) were obtained on 16.06.2010.

The Taiwanese veterinary authorities informed of the appearance of a foot and mouth disease outbreak in the country. The focal point is located on a pig farm in the Baozhong Township of YUN-LIN, with 1296 susceptible animals, and 112 confirmed cases.

COMMISSION DECISION of 25 June 2010 amending Decision 2008/855/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in feral pigs.

In two final reports submitted to the OIE, Korea (Rep.of) declares that foot and mouth disease events having started in April 2010 are closed.