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Ongoing surveillance for respiratory diseases in Manitoba swine herds has detected the novel pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in several herds, including sow barns, nursery barns, and feeder barns in various locations in the province.

Rangeland plants may be harboring a virus that grasshoppers are transmitting to cattle, horses and other hoofed mammals.

A new national commission, the One Health Commission, has been established to spotlight the connections between human, animal, and environmental health, as well as the benefits of proactive and collaborative approaches toward better health for all.

Following the good results achieved in 2008, the program for the control and erradication of Aujeszky’s disease continues to progress favourably, in such away that only two local livestock regions, of the 495 regions that make up the Spanish state, present an average prevalence in reproduction herds of over 10%.

Outbreaks of influenza virus in pigs has occurred in western New South Wales, northern Victoria and south-east Queensland. These outbreaks are in commercial piggeries.

In preparation for its application with the Office International des Epizooties for an 'FMD-free without vaccination' application for Luzon, the Philippine Department of Agriculture has ordered the stop of all FMD vaccination and an inventory of all available FMD vaccines in the country.

A poorly developed demand for veterinary services rather than a shortage of farm animal veterinarians has been identified by a personal report published by Professor Philip Lowe.

Taking into account a high risk of spreading infectious farm animal disease agents the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the Bryanskaya and Smolenskaya Oblasts has carried out inspections of pig farms in the Bryanskaya Oblast paying particular attention to the observance of veterinary and sanitary rules for the prevention of African swine fever introduction to pig farms.

Researchers in Germany have added a twist to the pandemic currently affecting humans: the influenza virus A/H1N1 has been shown to be infectious in pigs and to spread quickly in a trial pig population. Published in The Journal of General Virology, the results of the study are part of the EU-funded EPIZONE ('Network on epizootic disease diagnosis and control') project, which is supported under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to the tune of EUR 14 million.

The German veterinary authorities have informed the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of porcine brucellosis (Brucella suis). The report covers a case of brucellosis at Melz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It involved a farm with 4019 pigs, of which 22 died.

A piggery in NSW has been placed in quarantine after returning positive tests for Influenza A H1.

The OIE is aware that in many countries veterinary legislation became inadequate to address the challenges and new threats of today and of the future. At the request of its Members, the organisation has developed and published in the website guidelines on all the essential elements to be covered in veterinary legislation.