Swine news - Pig health

The SENASICA and the OIRSA are training technicians to improve the Veterinary Services in Central America and the Caribbean.

In 2016, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board adopted a report reiterating the critical shortages of large animal and rural veterinarians in Texas.

The Development Law Service (LEGN) has been working on developing a methodology for legislating for AMR to assist countries to tackle this growing problem.

With this announcement, vaccine companies may now apply for USDA permits to continue their work with this specific modified, non-infectious FMD virus in the United States.

A cooperation agreement in favour of public health through the reduction in the use of antimicrobials in pig production will be signed.

The Consortium ENETWILD is focusing on the collection of wild boar abundance and occurrence data for the analysis of the risk factors of African Swine Fever spread.

Since the confirmation of the first ASF case in the country, 6 animals have already been affected by the disease.

The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration has published a new handbook on the administration of antibiotics to pigs.

The global porcine vaccines market is expanding due to growing prevalence of swine diseases across the globe.

A second case of ASF in a wild boar has been confirmed in Hungary

Last Friday, the veterinary authorities of Moldova informed the WOAH/OIE of the appearance of a new ASF outbreak in pigs.

China recently announced the “Work program for the reduction of the use of antimicrobials in animals (2018-2021)”.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil has started a public survey regarding the devising of regulations for the management of dead pigs and fowls on the farms.

The virus has been identified in pigs in a slaughterhouse.

African swine fever has been reported in wild boar in Hungary for the first time.

Despite the entrance of contraband animals positive to foot-and-mouth disease, the containment allows to maintain the status in Colombia.

The number of outbreaks of ASF in domestic pigs and wild boar has decreased significantly in recent years.

In Eastern Europe, African swine fever is expanding increasingly. Since the beginning of this year there have been 2,259 new African swine fever cases in the European Union and Ukraine.

The European Union has just published a report on the progress and future actions of the EU against bacterial resistances.

Foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed on pig farms located in the north of the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supplies (MAPA) held, last week, the “Brazil Free of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Week” to celebrate the efforts of all the health defence bodies in the country, the producers and the farming industry to eradicate the disease from the national territory.

The development of a new Livestock Information Service to give farmers and processors accurate information about animals and their movements has been announced by Environment Secretary Michael Gove.

Last week, a meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture and the Heads of Veterinary Services of the Member States of the European Union, as well as of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, took place in Warsaw to address the problem of African swine fever (ASF).

The ANSES, through its Animal Health Laboratory located in Maisons-Alfort, has been appointed as the WAOH/FAO’s Reference Centre for foot-and-mouth disease and vesicular diseases.