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In Norway there is an ongoing outbreak in pigs of infections with pandemic influenza A(H1N1)v virus. The first herd was confirmed positive on 10 October 2009. As of 26 October, a total of 23 herds have been diagnosed as positive.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) and the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) have published a joint scientific opinion on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) focused on infections transmitted to humans from animals and food (zoonoses).

Due to the modifications of the Rosselkhoznadzor Instruction No. FS-GGVI/7340 dd. 17.07.09, temporary restrictions on import of pigs and pork products into the Russian Federation from districts of Pasvalys, Biržai, Rokiškis of the Panevėžys County of the Republic of Lithuania are lifted.

Based on the opinion of the scientific panel on Biological Hazards on the monitoring of VTEC and the identification of human pathogenic VTEC types (EFSA, 2007), harmonised technical specifications are proposed for the monitoring and reporting of VTEC in relevant animal populations and foodstuff categories.

After a lapse of several months, FMD broke out again in the northern province of Hoa Binh.

In the course of actions to eradicate foci of African swine fever (ASF) in the Rostov region, it was planned to kill more than 23.000 pigs.

Based on the opinion from the scientific panel on Biological Hazards on the monitoring and identification of human enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. (EFSA, 2007c), the Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection was asked by the European Food Safety Authority to draft harmonised technical specifications to be used for national surveys for the monitoring and reporting of Yersinia enterocolitica in pig populations under the Directive 2003/99/EC (EC, 2003).

One hundred fifty-three wild boars shot in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, were studied for the occurrence of foodborne pathogens. The detection rate of Salmonella spp., Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, stx-positive Escherichia coli, and Listeria monocytogenes was 12%, 35%, 20%, 9%, and 17%, respectively, when tonsil samples were studied.

This interim guidance is issued with the goal of preventing the spread of this novel virus or any other influenza (flu) virus from people to pigs and from pigs to people. These recommendations are for people who work with pigs in the commercial production (farm) setting.

Eastern Health, the new regional pig health improvement project, has been given the green light.

SCoFCAH supported unanimously a Commission draft Decision amending the rules on classical swine fever (CSF) in the light of the significant improvement of the disease situation in Romania.

EU Member States endorsed today at SCoFCAH a guidance document on control and surveillance measures to protect pigs against the H1N1 influenza virus. The veterinary services should focus efforts on timely detection of the H1N1 virus by means of targeted surveillance and sustainable movement controls once virus enters pigfarms.

AFSSA scientists have developed a technique for identifying the new human 2009 A/H1N1 influenza virus and distinguishing it from the influenza viruses which are normally found in pigs and poultry.

Clinical signs such as coughing and diarrhoea were observed in a pig farm located in T’ai-Tung County on 19 October 2009. The positive results of virus isolation, real-time RT-PCR and gene sequencing demonstrated that this outbreak was caused by H1N1 influenza A virus.

Since January 2009, a teschovirus PTV-1 serotype, identified by Plumb island laboratory, is circulating in Haiti and is causing important losses to Haiti pig producers.