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The OIE has informed about de reoccurrence of classical swine fever (CSF) in a modern pig farm owned by a federal university, located in Mossoró (Rio Grande Do Norte). Quarantine measures are applied on the farm. The outbreak is located outside the area declared as free of classical swine fever. Vaccination remains prohibited in the outbreak area as well as throughout the country.

The Spanish government have passed new normatives with the aim of stabilizing the zones which have reached a very low prevalence of Aujeszky’s disease, and of continuing to advance the qualification of herds in order to increase the territory which is free from the disease. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Comission Decision of 20 March 2009 amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the eradication and emergency vaccination plans for classical swine fever in feral pigs in certain areas of the Federal States of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Danish Crown's slaughterhouse in Horsens has been temporarily closed following fears that a pig sent to slaughter may have been suffering from highly contagious swine fever. The pig was from a farm near Århus. There are relatively frequent swine fever fears in Denmark, but the country has not seen an outbreak of the disease since 1933.

Blue-ear pig disease has spread to new areas of the central Quang Nam province of Vietnam, said the Animal Health Department of Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday. The epidemic has struck pig herds in 31 communes of four districts of the province, said the department.

An outbreak of African swine fever has been confirmed at a farm in southern Russia's Stavropol Region, the region's chief veterinary official said on Thursday.

Thirty thousand hogs raised in backyards in Central Luzon, the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) region and Pangasinan province will be tested for the Ebola Reston virus (ERV).

This outbreak illustrates that good international communication channels, early alerting mechanisms, inter-sectoral collaboration between public health and food safety authorities and harmonised molecular typing tools are important for effective identification and management of cross-border outbreaks.

Danish Bacon and Meat Council will change the priorities in its new plan of action against salmonella called SH IV, representing the fourth plan in a row. The new plan is supposed to improve the struggle against salmonella without great additional cost for the industry.

The Bureau of Animal Industry has finished culling over 6,000 hogs on a farm in Pandi, Bulacan to stop the transmission of the Ebola Reston virus or ERV. BAI Director Davinio Catbagan said in a report that the depopulation process was completed at 8:15 p.m. Friday with 6,210 hogs of various ages killed, burned, and buried.

The University of Cordoba, the Andalusian Cooperative Society for Agriculture and Farming from Valle de Los Pedroches (COVAP) and the PigChamp Pro-Europa company are developing a pioneering project in Andalusia to control and minimize the presence of salmonella in the iberian pig, in order to improve animal welfare and the food safety of the product. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

A PCV-2 retrospective serological survey was carried out with 659 serum samples collected from pigs in Mexico between 1972 and 2000.

Researchers of the CReSA, in collaboration with researchers of the Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA) and Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC) have been able to obtain a protective anti-viral cytotoxic response using chimeric calicivirus-like particles without adjuvant.

The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Nam has officially declared the outbreak of blue-ear pig disease in the province and banned all transport, trade, slaughter and the consumption of pigs and pork products in the affected areas.

The population of the pigs in the farm is divided into two premises which are 70m far from each other. The affected animals were discovered only in one of the two premises where 500 pregnant sows and 6 males stay. Clinical signs were fever, anorexia, multifocal hyperemia and hemorrhagic lesions of the skin, vomiting, coughing, ataxia and death. Post-mortem investigation has revealed lesions that fit classical swine fever.

Foot-and-mouth disease hit another Mekong Delta Can Tho province of Vietnam, raising the number of infected provinces to ten, according to Department of Animal Health under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday.