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Do you think enough is being done to control or prevent overuse of antibiotics in farm animals? Do antibiotics kill viruses? These are some of the questions that EFSA asked farmers, veterinarians and consumers through its survey aimed at gauging awareness of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across the EU.

Among the measures there will be the evaluation of the state veterinary services and the intensification of the health emergencies service.

A veterinary Pathologist with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine reports an emerging H1N2 strain of influenza, first detected in 2013 in Manitoba, has begun to spread throughout western Canada.

Figures newly released through RUMA suggest the UK pig sector is making significant changes in how it stewards antibiotic use in at least one key area, with a halving in prescribed antibiotics administered in feed for young pigs.

There has been a very significant reduction in the use of antibiotics in animals in the Netherlands in recent years (a 58.4% decrease in sales from 2009 to 2015).

WHO published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.

Due to the important increase in the cases of stomach ulcers in sows, Denmark will carry out a study at a national level to try to determine the prevalence of the problem and discover its causes.

The occurrence of new outbreaks of African Swine Fever affecting wild boars and domestic pigs in Latvia and Lithuania constitutes an increase in the level of risk.