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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) gave its official recognition as a foot-and-mouth disease-free area in which vaccination is not performed to the region of Patagonia Norte A.

The Russian veterinary authorities have informed of a new African swine fever outbreak in wild boars in the region of Belgorod, specifically in Glukhovka (Alekseevsky).

The OIE declared eradicated the foot-and-mouth disease in the Brazilian states of Alagoas, Maranhão, Paraíba, Ceará, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco and the north of Pará.

Live pigs from these countries entering the EU will be tested for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea.

USDA announced $26.2 million in funding to combat PEDv and issued a Federal Order requiring the reporting of new detections of these viruses to its APHIS or State animal health officials.

During the last meeting of the OIE, this organization decided, unanimously, to certify that Bolivia is free of foot-and-mouth disease.

Testing results confirm that exemplary measures to rein in African swine fever have been applied as no virus of ASF has been detected in any of the tested 11 273 wild boar samples and 8 977 pig samples.

The industry and the Ministry of Agriculture have prepared a plan that expects to invest some $1,400 million during year 2014.

Last Friday the Russian veterinary authorities confirmed to the OIE three new FMD outbreaks in Primorsky Kray.

During this week, the Assembly examined the worldwide animal health situation, and gave special attention to the latest sanitary episodes of importance.

Rosselkhoznadzor imposes temporary restrictions on import of breeding and commercial pigs as well as not-heat-treated blood products used for manufacturing feeds for food-producing animals from May 30, 2014.

Yevgeny Nepoklonov stressed the importance of creating buffer zones which will prevent the disease spread to free areas and the expediency of their establishment in three areas of concern: Transcaucasia, Far East and Middle Asia.

The two organizations said they would reinforce their partnership in priority areas that include joint response to animal health crises.

In the 82nd Session of the OIE the Republic of Korea was recognised free from FMD with vaccination.