Swine news - Pig health

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) to be vigilant in their inspection and monitoring of cross border trade of animal products as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) continue to pose health risks.

The Minister of Agriculture of Low Saxony wants to implement the video surveillance of abattoirs, with access to the cams through cellphones.

As of January 4th, there were already 406 wild boars infected with ASF in Belgium.

In 2018, the Danish pig farmers have managed to reduce, once more, antibiotic consumption. In the last five years, antibiotic consumption has dropped by up to 18%.

A first inception meeting of which could be held in P.R. China to define the terms of reference and the work programme of the group.

The work provides an atlas that describes the possible roles of these components in the assembly of the viral particle, the viral genes expression and the entry of the virus into the host cell.

The disease has been detected on 7 pig farms, the last one with 1,600 susceptible animals.

Based on use per ‘bodyweight’, there was a reduction of 40% in food-producing animals (from 62 mg/kg to 37 mg/kg) and 9% in people (from 135 mg/kg to 123 mg/kg).

In light of the recent outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) and other animal diseases, the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has been working on a multi-pronged action plan to: research science-based solutions for mitigating the risks of virus transmission through feed, and communicate any new information and recommendations to the industry and producer groups.

After a first detection in 2015, the SHIC has confirmed the reappearance of the disease.

The Commission is organising the first of a series of regional workshops on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from 5-8 February in Cape Town, South Africa.

Effective January 15, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will add Mongolia to the list of regions that APHIS considers to be affected by African swine fever (ASF).

The conference was attended by experts from the hunting community, scientists, the European Commission, EFSA, OIE, national authorities as well as key stakeholders from EU farming and pig meat sectors.

The OIE is redesigning and upgrading WAHIS to a technologically advanced yet user-friendly form with many previously unavailable features.

For 2019, the Commission decided to allocate about €154 million to the fight against animal diseases and infectious diseases of animals that can be transmitted to humans as well as to support plant pests surveys.

In 2018, the ASF cases in the EU both in domestic pigs and wild boars increased considerably.

The new International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions would be set up in Copenhagen in 2019.

Besides intensifying wild boar hunting, Denmark has started to build a fence along the Danish-German border.

Results obtained by the SENASA have shown significant resistance levels against colistin.

The tests were conducted on salami and sausages confiscated from a man who flew from Chengdu.

The ASPROCER and SAG have launched a campaign to avoid the entry of meat products, thus avoiding the possible entry of diseases such as African swine fever.

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) has revised and released the Announcement on the Heavy Punishment for Serious Illegal Acts Concerning Veterinary Drugs (Announcement No. 97 of MARA), and abolished its former Announcement No. 2071.