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In light of the evolution in the disease situation in the third countries concerned, the protection measures should be prolonged until the end of October 2016.

Following recent notifications of ASF outbreaks in Ukraine, the existing measures of cleansing and disinfection should also be extended to the vehicles entering the Union from Ukraine.

The scenario that best fit the criteria for virus entry into the U.S. was virus spread through reuse of contaminated Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBC).

The Russian Veterinary Authorities have confirmed the reocurrence of an outbreak of classical swine fever (CSF) in the centre of the country.

The drop has been by 9.1% with respect to the same period in 2014.

APHIS is advising the public that the agency is adding European Union and EU Member State-defined regions of the EU to the APHIS list of regions affected with African swine fever (ASF).

Within the framework of the “One Health” concept, aimed in particular at protecting public and animal health through policies to prevent and control pathogens at the human/animal/environment interface, the collaboration agreement just signed by the Institut Pasteur and the World Organisation for Animal Health seeks to strengthen cooperation in this field between the two organisations.

Two more cases happened in backyard farms in Rivne (September, 4th in Budymlia village, 3 pigs died) and Chernigiv (September, 8th in Maksymivka village, 6 pigs died) regions. These territories are covered by quarantine zone, as well as Kyiv, Sumy and Poltava regions.

Keep in mind that so far in 2015 we’ve had confirmed SVV from only 20 – 30 cases from across the U.S., the incidence is low but it is much higher than the 2 or 3 sporadic cases per year that is our historical experience.