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New developments in the fight against swine fever

13-Apr-2010
The course of a classic swine fever outbreak is determined in large part by the virus strain with which the pigs are infected. That is the conclusion Eefke Weesendorp recently presented in her doctoral thesis. She has definitively proven that the virus can occur in the air and can therefore be transmitted through an airborne vector.

USA - Homeland security renews Animal Disease Centers

06-Apr-2010
Efforts to protect the nation from potentially catastrophic animal diseases will continue with a $21 million package from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to Texas A&M University and Kansas State University. The monies will support the homeland security department's Center of Excellence for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense at the universities through 2016.

European Union - EFSA: Scientific opinion on African Swine Fever

24-Mar-2010
Following a request from The European Commission, the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on African Swine Fever and to assess: • the significance of the occurrence and risk of endemicity of ASF in the countries neighbouring the EU • the possibility of ASF becoming endemic in domestic pigs and to maintaining itself in a wild boar population in the EU, keeping in mind the differences in virulence of ASF virus strains, in particular the virus strains which are now endemic in the Caucasus region; • the role played by vectors in the spread and the maintenance of ASF and provide geographical information and maps of Member States displaying the geographical distribution of Ornithodoros erraticus as well as other potential invertebrate hosts.

Annual Advancement in PRRS Research Award

23-Mar-2010
Despite years of hard work by scientists, researchers, practicing veterinarians, pork producers, animal health companies, and others, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) remains a costly, frustrating challenge to the global swine industry.