Swine news - Pig health

African swine fever has been detected for the first time in the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz in wild boar.

The Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products has proposed a new working group to replace the voluntary European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption network.

Several wild boar carcasses infected with African swine fever virus have been found in the white zone of the Oder-Spree district.

The extension of the buffer zone a few kilometers to the west allows for the legal possibility of constructing the protection corridor.

Imports of live pigs during the first nine months of this year are again above the same period of the previous year.

Wild boar infected with African swine fever virus have been confirmed in the areas of Türkendorf, Bloischdorf, and Weskow.

The province of Batangas was selected as a pilot area in the implementation of the program.

Antibiotics sales for use in food-producing animals more than halved since 2014.

Establishment of a public-private partnership within the framework of the Swine Industry Pilot Program on biosecurity and disease control based on international standards of the World Organization for Animal Health.

These are the findings of EFSA’s scientific opinion assessing the risk of spread of antimicrobial resistance among livestock during transport.

ASF has been detected on a farm with more than 39,000 animals in Timis County.

The restricted zone III in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg was lifted after three months of restrictions.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is working with the pork and poultry industry to design traceability systems that make possible to know the origin, transit and final destination of the meat.

The restrictions applied after African swine fever was detected on a pig farm in the municipality of Emsbüren (Emsland district) were lifted on October 5.

Brazil has been free of the disease since 1984.

All 3,000 pigs on the affected farm in Gimpo - si, Gyeonggi-do will be culled.

Over 13,000 animals were culled on pig farms in Gangwon-do.

The Australian Government has banned the importation of meat products for personal use from all countries with foot and mouth disease.

The results presented in the status report clearly show that antibiotic use has decreased significantly since monitoring began and has stabilized for years at a level that should correspond to the therapeutically necessary minimum.

Technical working groups will be created to make progress in the control and eradication of African swine fever in the Dominican Republic and Haiti and thus reduce the risk of spread to other countries in the Americas.

The new regulations modify some aspects of parasite control in relation to cutting and alternative analytical methods.

According to the Commission, the current epidemiological situation in Germany has worsened and there is increased spread of African swine fever.