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According to the information that came from the Territorial Administration of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Krasnodarskiy Krai and the Republic of Adygeya, the ASF positive result was obtained in the Kropotkinskaya regional veterinary laboratory in the course of examination of a blood serum samples taken from diseased pigs kept in a personal subsidiary plot in the settlement Staroscherbinovskaya, the Scherbinovskiy Rayon, the Krasnnodarskiy Krai. The diagnosis was confirmed by the GSI ARRIVV&M on December 9, 2010.

Tanzania has reported an outbreak of African swine fever in its southwest region of Mbeya, the Director of Veterinary Services, W.C.H Mleche, confirmed to OIE.

The Rosselkhoznadzor imposed temporary restrictions on import of live pigs, boar semen, pork and raw porcine meat products as well as non-heat-treated porcine products from the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques from December 7, 2010 due to occurrence of Aujeszky’s disease in this department.

According to the recommendations of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code the Rosselkhoznadzor is imposing temporary restrictions on the import of live pigs and pork from the Vojvodina region, Serbia from December 2, 2010.

A cattle farm in Yecheon, North Gyeongsang Province, was found to have been infected with the deadly foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] Monday [6 Dec 2010], the 1st outbreak outside Andong, where the disease was 1st reported early last week.

The World Ogranisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported a new outbreak of Aujeszky's disease in France.

The price of beef and pork has fallen due to the news of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) being found at several more farms.

The Council adopted a decision on the EU position on Decision No 1/2010 of the Joint Veterinary Committee set up by the agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products regarding the amendment of annex 11 to the agreement (15674/10).

An increase in the morbidity/mortality has been observed in the area of Amphur Ban-Ra-Kam (Phitsanulok province) and PRRS is suspected based on clinical signs.

According to the Minister of Agriculture and Food of Rostov region, the region will produce 38.000 tons of meat less in the coming year because of African swine fever outbreaks, due to which the number of pigs in the region was reduced by almost three fold.