Swine news - Pig health

Procedures for the pig farms located in an area affected by ASF in wild boars that wish to transport their pigs to an abattoir.

Goals for Fiscal Years 2019-2023 is CVM’s blueprint for guiding its activities over the next five years to combat antimicrobial resistance and preserve the effectiveness of antimicrobial drugs.

This measure is taken to avoid a possible transmission of the virus from wild boar to domestic pigs.

So far, 9 cases of African swine fever have been confirmed in the region of Etalle, in the province of Luxembourg.

Jilin, the eight province affected by ASF.

Animal diseases, such as avian influenza or African swine fever, know no borders and can continually affect new areas. Reducing the risk is possible through the implementation of procedures designed to avoid the introduction and spread of pathogens in animal populations.

Affected animals have been detected in the center of the country.

The monitoring will be carried out on some 200 farms where zinc has been prescribed in the last 6 months.

African swine fever has now been detected in the province of Inner Mongolia.

A dead wild boar confirmed positive to CSF was found within the 10km radius from the affected farm.

A systematic review of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the food chain by the Food Standards Agency (2016) concluded that there was a lack of data on AMR prevalence in British-produced food, leading to difficulty in monitoring trends or producing risk assessments for the exposure of consumers.

The growing threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria can only be tackled through a “One Health” approach, MEPs said on Wednesday.

Sardinia has gone from more than 100 outbreaks in 2013 to 3 in 2018.

Ms Anne Bucher, the current chair of the Commission's Regulatory Scrutiny Board, will take over as head of the Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) on 1 October.

The presence of ASF in several Polish voivodates has forced the Ukrainian authorities to impose certain restrictions.

The disease has been detected in the provinces of Liaoning, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Heilongjiang.

Overall antibiotic usage in pigs halved in just two years between 2015 and 2017.

Asian countries warned that deadly African Swine Fever is ‘here to stay’ – utmost diligence required to avoid major damage to food security and livelihoods.

MIAs for veterinary use will be sold by prescription only.

The new outbreak is located in the province of Heilongjiang, where we can find the live pig market that supplied the abattoir in the province of Henan.

Swine industry experts now have some peer-reviewed science to rely on when looking at ways to mitigate the current risk posed by ASF in China.

Decisions concern 2 new authorisations and the renewal of 3 existing authorisations.