Swine news - Pig health

Carbapenemase-producing bacteria, once mainly a hospital concern, are now being detected in food animals and food products across Europe.

In the first quarter of 2025, more than 4,400 cases have already been reported in wild boar and 168 in domestic pigs in 17 European countries. Poland, Germany, and Latvia lead in wild boar, while Romania and Moldova are concerned about the increase in domestic pig cases.

The new Decision identifies new protection and surveillance zones and additional restricted zones in Slovakia and Hungary, as well as additional surveillance zones and restricted zones in Austria.

For the first time, all the 27 countries of the European Union together with Iceland and Norway have collected and reported data on both sales and use of antimicrobials in animals in their countries.

Hungary has confirmed two new outbreaks of FMD and Slovakia confirms its fifth, bordering Austria and near the Czech Republic.

Trends in antimicrobial consumption by species and animal categories in Spain in 2023 and information for combating antimicrobial resistance.

The restriction zone established around this second outbreak, which involves more than 3,000 dairy cattle, covers a small part of Austrian territory.

Austria extends its surveillance zone after an FMD outbreak on a Hungarian dairy cattle farm with 3,000 animals near the Austrian border.

The Member States have agreed to implement an additional restriction zone with a radius of at least 50 km around the outbreaks.

Import ban amended following outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany.

The location of the new outbreak reinforces the possibility of long-distance airborne transmission, the most likely hypothesis.

The areas affected by African swine fever (ASF) are now down to 39 barangays.

As of March 12, 2025, Germany is considered free of foot-and-mouth disease, except for the so-called containment zone, a 6-kilometer radius around the outbreak near Hönow.

Second case of African swine fever confirmed in a wild boar in Baden-Württemberg.

How the PRRS reduction plan in Denmark has developed including the status and occurrence of PRRS in Danish pig herds.

Support should there be a closure of key export markets for Canadian pork products and live pigs due to an ASF outbreak.

Slovakia takes measures following the occurrence of foot and mouth disease in Hungary.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published its report on antimicrobial resistance in the European Union (EU) for the period 2022-2023.

Average biosecurity audit scores for both internal and external biosecurity are increasing slightly.

A restricted ASF zone set up on November 21, 2024 in the district of Oberhavel can be lifted again.

Foot and mouth disease virus serotype O was detected in a sample tested at a pig farm in Thanh Hoa province.

In EFSA’s yearly report on residues of veterinary medicinal products in live animals and animal products, the trend continued for high compliance with official limits.

The country is self-declared free of the disease; it is now working for international certification to consolidate its status and strengthen swine health.

These are the first detections of JEV in animals in Queensland since July 2022.