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FAO-OIE team in North Korea to help with Foot-and-Mouth disease

A team of animal health specialists from FAO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has arrived in North Korea to assist veterinary authorities there in responding to outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth disease among pigs and cattle.

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Effect of Ascaris suum infection on performance of fattening pigs

Scientific investigations of production losses in pigs due to roundworms are rarely conducted in commercial farms, despite the fact that this information is needed to decide whether anthelmintic treatment is cost-effective or not. Therefore, the aim of our study was to compare performance in fattening pigs treated or not treated for Ascaris suum infections.

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The importance of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) subclinical infection

Available data indicate that PCV2 has the ability to modulate the immune response, not only during the obvious overt disease but also in a subclinically infection.

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Kenya – OIE reports an outbreak of African swine fever

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received immediate notification on Friday, 4 March.

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South Africa - Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

The physical inspections conducted on the animals in the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) protection zone in some parts of Northern KwaZulu-Natal have shown lesions which ranged from a week-old and some older than two weeks.

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South Korea - FMD: The government is considering regular vaccinations for all livestock

The government is considering regular vaccinations for all livestock every 6 months for the next 3 to 5 years to prevent another outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease [FMD].

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Evaluation of an aluminosilicate to decrease the toxic effects of Aflatoxin B1 in swine

AFB1, at the concentrations used for this experiment, affects the animals as shown by the increase in alkaline phosphates and GGT enzymes. Also, the decrease of these enzymes in the group that received the diet containing the absorbent proves the protections of these absorbents.

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Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health completes delivery of 12 million doses of foot-and-mouth vaccine to the government of South Korea

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces today that it has shipped 12 million doses of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine to South Korea to assist in the country’s efforts to halt the ongoing FMD outbreak.

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Bulgaria – FMD: Commission partly lifts protection measures after successful implementation of EU rules

Using the new Comitology procedure for the first time, the European Commission decided yesterday to reduce the areas under restriction in Bulgaria due to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). The new 'Comitology Regulation', which entered into force on 1st March, lays down the rules on how Member States can exercise control of the Commission’s implementing powers.

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Determination of the viability of Toxoplasma gondii in cured ham using bioassay: influence of technological processing and food safety implications

The consumption of hams cured as described here poses an insignificant risk of acquiring toxoplasmosis. However, additional studies are required to evaluate the safety of ham products cured under different conditions of curing time, salt, and nitrite concentration.

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United Kingdom - Research needed on meat safety

The Food Standards Agency is commissioning four pieces of research that will help gather evidence to modernise official controls on meat. The work forms part of the Future Meat Controls Research Programme. The driving force behind this programme is to improve public health by adopting a more risk- and evidence-based approach to meat production.

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China - New outbreak of FMD

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported a new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in China.

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Peru vaccinates its swine herd against classic swine fever

In December the National Agrarian Health Service of Peru (SENASA) initiated the national vaccination of 1,4 million pigs against classic swine fever.

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Hepatitis E virus in swine and effluent samples from slaughterhouses in Brazil

With the aim to evaluate the incidence of animals with current infection of HEV, 115 bile samples were collected from three slaughterhouses under inspection by Animal Sanitary Protection Agency of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In parallel, effluent samples were collected from six sewage pipe exit sites of two slaughterhouses.

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Russia - New outbreak of classical swine fever

Classical swine fever has been discovered in wild boars in a game husbandry "Znamenskoye", Ugransky, in Smolenskaya Oblast.

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Russia - ASF Outbreak reported out of the permanently affected area

A new outbreak of ASF was reported out of the permanently affected area (the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasian Federal District) in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. The outbreak was reported at 7:45 on 18 February 2011 in the city of Dzershinsk in the backyard of V.N. Mukhin.