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The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of El Salvador has decided to suspend imports of pork from Guatemala after confirming the occurrence of classical swien fever in the neighboring country.

The Chituplun Chines outbreak is limited to this farm. No further cases have been observed. Epidemiological surveillance continues at national level.

The Rosselkhoznadzor has reported new outbreaks of African swine fever in Russia’s Volgograd and Tver regions.

India is soon to introduce a law requiring livestock producers to strictly follow a withdrawal period in antibiotic use in feed in an attempt to make meat, milk and eggs free from antibiotic residue.

The vesicular epithelium sample was processed for virus isolation in cell culture and typing by ELISA and PCR confirmed serotype O of the FMD virus.

According to the results of the thesis presented to The Royal Veterinary College, University of London: "The Epidemiology of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) in England: and evaluation of surveillance using scenario tree analysis", current control measures are not effective and that surveillance needs enhancement.

Canadian realized net farm income was $4 billion, up $916 million or 29 per cent from the previous year. This increase followed a 19.6 per cent decline in 2009.

The veterinary authorities of Kenya have sent Follow Up report No. 1 dated 28 November to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

Peruvian veterinary authorities have reported two outbreaks of transmissible gastroenteritis in Peru.

Up to 143,400 metric tons (MT) of pork and chicken entered the Philippine market since September 2011.

For CAS, the FMD status of the Republic of Paraguay concerns the entire region and threatens the achievement of the objectives outlined in the Hemispheric Plan for Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease.

A pilot project designed to allow pork producers in Western Canada to certify that their herds are free of PRRS has been expanded to include Ontario and Quebec.

The Veterinary Medecine Directorate has published a report on the sales of antimicrobial products authorised for use as veterinary medicines, antiprotozoals, antifungals and coccidiostats in the UK.

At the initiative of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency a working meeting with the Turkish Veterinary Services was held in connection with the introduced control measures for FMD in the sanitary cordon of Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey.