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Movement restrictions on the farm of origin of a pig with vesicular lesions found at the slaughterhouse in Tao Yuan County and on the farms in Penghu are lifted.

In two follow-up reports sent to the OIE, Botswana notified that no new foot and mouth disease outbreaks have occurred since April and May 2011.

One pig with vesicular lesions was found in a detention pen (only one pig in that pen) of the slaughterhouse in Tao Yuan County.

The status of the FMD free zone where vaccination is suspended with effect from 5 December 2011.

The vesicular epithelium sample was processed for virus isolation in cell culture and typing by ELISA and PCR confirmed serotype O of the FMD virus.

For CAS, the FMD status of the Republic of Paraguay concerns the entire region and threatens the achievement of the objectives outlined in the Hemispheric Plan for Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease.

At the initiative of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency a working meeting with the Turkish Veterinary Services was held in connection with the introduced control measures for FMD in the sanitary cordon of Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey.

The EU earmarked yesterday more than €203 million to support programmes to eradicate, control and monitor animal diseases and zoonoses, aiming to further strengthen the protection of human and animal health in 2012.

Five of two hundred pigs were found with vesicular lesions in Penghu animal quarantine establishment after they were transported into Penghu Island from Taiwan Island.

Australia does not have sufficient suitable human resources to manage anything other than a small foot-and-mouth incursion.

During the routine active FMD serological surveillance, NSP antibodies were detected on one pig farm.

Veterinary authorities in Kazakhastan have reported the FMD-related restriction measures on movement of animals.

Last week China's veterinary authorities informed the OIE of a new focus of foot and mouth disease.

There are currently 25 teams in the zone around the outbreak and in the surveillance zone and 13,333 blood samples.

Continuous surveillance is still ongoing to monitor FMD situation. Surveillance in pigs is namely passive.

The report described a single outbreak of FMD on a farm in the village of Duixu (Zhongda town, Lang, Linzhi).