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The Dutch Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Gerda Verburg, declared at the end of a recent government meeting that the use of antibiotics in livestock will have to be reduced by half in the next three years to reach the levels of 1999, and at least by 20% in 2011.

According to the national coordinator of the CSF program of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (Maga), David Orellana, the OIE have announced that Guatamala is once again a country free of classic swine fever.

Scientists have found bovine TB in a feral wild boar for the first time in the UK. The discovery may raise fears among farmers that boars, along with badgers, could be contributing to bovine TB in cattle – but the researchers say the porcine species poses a low risk of spreading the disease to livestock or humans.

Victorian pig producers will pay 16 cents per carcass to fund a disease surveillance program through the state's Department of Primary Industry.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in pigs in Hong Kong.

The Government of Canada is investing up to $2 million to prevent and contain animal diseases. The funding for the Canadian Animal Health Coalition for the West Hawk Lake Zoning Initiative will help to monitor the movement of animals and agricultural products between eastern and western Canada.

Japan ordered more than 1 percent of its swine herd to be slaughtered after Miyazaki prefecture, the nation’s second-biggest growing region, declared a “state of emergency” as an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease spreads.

Ireland has submitted supporting documentation to the Commission as regards the Aujeszky’s disease status of that Member State. A national control programmes for Aujeszky’s disease has been implemented in Ireland for several years.

Since the first notification of the presence of foot and mouth disease in China, in March 2010, the OIE has reported the appearance of 10 new focal points spread throughout the country.

FAO urged heightened international surveillance against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) following three recent incursions in Japan and South Korea.

The outbreak in Hung Yen has brought to four the total number of provinces in Vietnam affected by the disease.

Four more outbreaks were found between 24 and 28 April 2010 at three more locations in the Southern Miyazaki Prefecture, including Japan's first cases involving pigs at Kawaminami-cho Koyu-gun.

The Canadian Swine Health Board has targeted the eradication of PRRS as one of its initial research priorities.

South Korea has banned imports of all meat and by-products from cloven-hoofed animals in Japan after Tokyo confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

The National Service of Animal Quality and Health (SENACSA) of Paraguay last week announced, by the signing of the Presidential Decree Nº 4,214, the passing of the National Plan for Swine Health of Paraguay and the Program for the Eradication of classical swine fever.

The latest figures presented to the European Commission by the Polish veterinary authorities on the status of Aujeszky’s disease in Poland indicate that from a total of 16 regions, there are 8 with a prevalence of 0.5% while the other 8 have a prevalence of between 0.5% and 5%, while there are no zones with a prevalence of over 5%.