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At the initiative of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency a working meeting with the Turkish Veterinary Services was held in connection with the introduced control measures for FMD in the sanitary cordon of Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey.

According to Russian authorities, among the main causes of the spread of the disease is the movement of the ASF virus among wild boar...

A confirmed case of SD and aproximately five unconfirmed suspected cases are a concern for farmers in the region.

They will shoot 750 wild boars, and will not let even the sandwich cross the Ukrainian-Russian border.

France has informed the Commission about recent developments with regard to classical swine fever in feral pigs.

Although not yet published officially, Brussels has decided to ban exports of pork from Sardinia.

The outbreak is limited to a farm in Sacatepequez and includes a total of 16,130 susceptible animals.

The EU earmarked yesterday more than €203 million to support programmes to eradicate, control and monitor animal diseases and zoonoses, aiming to further strengthen the protection of human and animal health in 2012.

The outbreaks are located in in Rostovskaya and Voronezhskaya Oblasts.

Five of two hundred pigs were found with vesicular lesions in Penghu animal quarantine establishment after they were transported into Penghu Island from Taiwan Island.

The outbreak above seems to be the 1st one recorded in the Kursk (Kurskaya) oblast, bordering Ukraine on its north-eastern border.

In connection with the cases of African swine fever at a private farm in Kursk region (Russia), 85 km from the Ukrainian border, Ukrainian veterinary and sanitary control points at the state border have been put on alert.

Australia does not have sufficient suitable human resources to manage anything other than a small foot-and-mouth incursion.

At least five hundred pigs in Amuru District have succumbed to the highly contagious African swine fever, a disease that majorly affects pigs.

VPSS forecasts that continued spread of ASF could result in an economic impact as high as RUR8 billion ($267 million) by year’s end.

The State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine has lifted a ban on imports of pigs and pork from Lithuania.