Swine news - Pig health

Antimicrobials are important to safeguard the health of humans and animals, but these medicines need to be used responsibly, including in the agricultural sectors, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said at a high-level UN coordination meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

At the occasion of the 86th General Session of the OIE, the 181 OIE Member Countries discussed several revisions of OIE international Standards and guidelines resulting in a stronger veterinary supervision of the use of antimicrobials in animals worldwide.

At this year’s General Session, the World Assembly of OIE Delegates distributed 11 certificates to 10 countries for official disease status recognition.

This international status will encourage the negotiations with third countries for the export of pigs and their products.

Argentina has received the official international recognition as a Classical Swine Fever (CSF)-free country by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH/OIE).

Despite the rejection by the Government, the team comprised by several ministers will review the plans for the building of the wall.

The WOAH/OIE officially recognises Brazil as a free of foot-and-mouth disease country.

“Stronger compliance by national Veterinary Services and Aquatic Animal Health Services with OIE International Standards is essential for improving animal health, animal welfare, and veterinary public health at the national, regional and international level.” Dr Monique Eloit, OIE Director General.

The new cases of African Swine Fever in Poland and Latvia represent an increase in the level of risk and the affected areas must be subject to further restrictions.

African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a dead wild boar found in Hungary, a few kilometres away from the border with Ukraine.

The “SENASICA Integral System” will concentrate, in real time, the health information generated in Mexico. The new platform is a useful tool for making decisions regarding health and harmlessness matters.

Industry leaders have welcomed latest figures which show the pig industry reduced antibiotic usage in the UK by 28 per cent in 2017, bringing the total reduction in two years to more than 50 per cent.

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)”.