Page 87 of articles about swine-diseases

South Korea will not raise its present foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) alert level despite a fresh outbreak in the southeastern part of the country over the weekend, a government official said Monday.

On 18 April 2011, the North Korean veterinary authorities informed the OIE about the confirmation of 4 new outbreaks of FMD.

On 7 April 2011, the Bulgarian authorities informed the Commission about the confirmation of a new FMD outbreak (outbreak 11) in domestic animals in Sredets municipality.

The All-Russia Research Institute of Veterinary Virology and Microbiology tested pathological material taken from pigs found dead in the private holding in closed administrative-territorial unit Mirny, Plesetsky Rayon, the Arkhangelsk Oblast.

The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board hopes to begin testing swine herds in western Canada for PRRS-Free Herd Certification within the next few months.

Due to the occurrence of a new outbreak of ASF in Murmansk Oblast (Russia), Belarus Ministry of Agriculture has introduced a temporary ban on the import of pork from Murmansk Oblast.

According to information submitted to the OIE by Dr Zhang Zhongqui, Director General , China Animal Disease Control Centre, a new outbreak of FMD has been confirmed in Jing Xiang village (GUIZHOU).

The 38th Meeting of the South American Commission for the Fight against Foot and Mouth Disease (COSALFA) took place last week in Recife (Brazil), with the objective of defining the next steps to take in the fight against foot and mouth disease in the 2011-2020 Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Plan of Action (PHEFA).

South Korea will reopen all 85 of its livestock markets today, almost four months after they were closed at the end of November last year when FMD surfaced.

The Bulgarian authorities have notified two new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in the country.

The foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has haunted farms nationwide seems to have come under control.

The specialists of Kropotkinskaya regional veterinary laboratory detected genetic material of ASF virus in the samples of pathological material collected from dead and emergency slaughtered swine kept in a pig farm rented by a private person in the territory of agricultural and animal breeding complex "Kedr" located 2.5 km from village of Krasnoye, Voznesenskoye settlement, Labinsky Rayon, Krasnodar Krai.

Italy has given notice of the 15th source of swine vesicular disease in the country since the start of the year.