Swine news - Pig health

On 16 December 2016 the Commission launched a call for applications to select and designate an EU reference laboratory in the field of foodborne viruses.

A new report from the three agencies presents new data on antibiotic consumption and antibiotic resistance and reflects improved surveillance across Europe.

The ‘One Health’ European Joint Programme (EJP), formed by 41 research centres and reference laboratories from 19 member states has passed the European Commission’s assessment and will receive subsidies for the next 5 years.

The appearance of the porcine epidemic diarrhoea in Chile would cause a greatly negative impact at a national level.

The ICA has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Cúcuta (North Santander), at 300 meters from the border with Venezuela, and another one in Tibacuy (Cudinamarca) related to the outbreak in Yacopí.

The affected premises are located in the departments of Salto and Canelones.

The PEDV cases in the Canadian province of Manitoba are growing week after week.

The Commission informed ministers of the state of play in the fight against African swine fever.

The plan outlines a strategy to detect and respond to emerging animal diseases and define the processes that APHIS will use to identify, evaluate, and respond to emerging diseases in animal populations.

The changes in the epidemiological situation as regards ASF in Estonia, Lithuania and Poland constitutes an increase in the level of risk.

With these new ASF outbreaks detected in the Czech Republic, the confirmed outbreaks since the appearance, for the first time, of the disease by late June, total 25.

The Commission presented its communication "One health action plan".

Consumption of raw or undercooked pork meat and liver is the most common cause of hepatitis E infection in the EU, said EFSA.

The WOAH has published new notifications of African swine fever cases in the Czech Republic.

The action plan takes a One Health approach and addresses AMR in bacteria from humans, animals and in the environment.

Health authorities in Mexico and the European Union raised the question of cooperation on issues such as animal welfare and antimicrobial resistance.

The Commission has established that the whole of the Zlín district is an area infected by ASF.

34 new cases of PED confirmed since May.

The OIE has confirmed two outbreaks of PRRS in two pig farms in the northern district of Hazafon.

The Agriculture and Livestock Institute of Colombia (ICA) notified a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak to the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

The Action Plan is underpinned by a One Health approach that addresses resistance in both humans and animals. In parallel, the Commission adopted the first deliverable of the plan: EU Guidelines on the prudent use of antimicrobials in human health.

This is the first notification of this disease in the Czech Republic.

The Commission considers that the Member States must be given a 5-year period for withdrawing the marketing authorisations of veterinary drugs that contain zinc oxide.

New Foot-and-Mouth disease rapid diagnostic kit gets license for use in U.S. livestock.