Page 65 of articles about swine-diseases in Swine news

The Russian Minister of Agriculture has presented the guidelines of the especial federal program for the eradication of African swine fever in Russian territory.

One of the issues discussed by Sergey Dankvert and the Minister of the Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Nikolay Prisyazhnyk during the talks concerned the spread of ASF virus across the territory of the Russian Federation. The Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor informed the Ukrainian side of the measures taken by the Federal Service with the aim to control ASF in the RF.

The Guelph based George Morris Centre estimates Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome is costing the Canadian swine industry a minimum of 130 million dollars per year.

This disease is costing the Canadian pork industry about 60 million dollars a year.

After several years of preparation and grants from the German government, the Deutsche Raiffeisen Verband (DRV), in collaboration with various German producers’ associations, will soon be launching a certification system for piglets. This certification system is a transparent counterpart of the Danish and Dutch model.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an immediate notification about an outbreak of classical swine fever in Chad.

Pig industry leaders have asked Defra to work with them to develop a ‘sensible’ TB policy for pigs amid growing concern about current levels of disease in the species. In the past 18 months alone, 40 individual cases of bovine TB have been identified in pigs – the same number detected between 2002 and 2008.

The World Ogranisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported six new outbreaks of Aujeszky's disease in France.

As the spread of FMD still continued and the disease outbreak risk is still high, the Cabinet has decided to allocate MNT300 million for the purchase of 600,000 dozes of vaccine from Russia and for injection costs.

In a final report sent to the OIE, Botswana reports that the foot and mouth disease event having started in July 2010 is closed.

The French veterinary authorities informed the OIE last week of the appearance of new cases of Aujeszky disease in the country.

Since, on 6 October 2010, 3 months will have passed after the destruction of the last case, Japan will shortly apply to the OIE for recovery of status “Freedom from Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) without vaccination”, providing the dossier required to be evaluated by the Scientific Commission for Animal Disease (SCAD), in accordance with the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

Following a request from The European Commission, the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on current pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and its potential implications for animal health.

South Korea will seek to resume exports of pork as the country has been declared free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

The authorities of the prefecture of the Atlantic Pyrenees has informed that, in addition to the 2 sources of infection of Aujeszky disease in Uhart-Cize and Alos-Sibas-Abense, they are adding two more located in Esterençuby, Saint-Etienne-de-Baigory and Saint-Jean-le-Vieux.

Import of animals susceptible to FMD and non-heat treated products of animal origin to the Russian Federation will be restricted by the Rosselkhoznadzor from September 14, 2010 due to detection of FMD in cattle in Mongolia.