Page 14 of articles about swine-diseases in Swine news

Interest is growing in the potential benefits of using insects in food and animal feed, but what would be the risks from production, processing and consumption of this alternative source of protein?

Following recent notifications of ASF outbreaks in Ukraine, the existing measures of cleansing and disinfection should also be extended to the vehicles entering the Union from Ukraine.

In light of the evolution in the disease situation in the third countries concerned, the protection measures should be prolonged until the end of October 2016.

The scenario that best fit the criteria for virus entry into the U.S. was virus spread through reuse of contaminated Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBC).

APHIS is advising the public that the agency is adding European Union and EU Member State-defined regions of the EU to the APHIS list of regions affected with African swine fever (ASF).

Within the framework of the “One Health” concept, aimed in particular at protecting public and animal health through policies to prevent and control pathogens at the human/animal/environment interface, the collaboration agreement just signed by the Institut Pasteur and the World Organisation for Animal Health seeks to strengthen cooperation in this field between the two organisations.

Keep in mind that so far in 2015 we’ve had confirmed SVV from only 20 – 30 cases from across the U.S., the incidence is low but it is much higher than the 2 or 3 sporadic cases per year that is our historical experience.

Two more cases happened in backyard farms in Rivne (September, 4th in Budymlia village, 3 pigs died) and Chernigiv (September, 8th in Maksymivka village, 6 pigs died) regions. These territories are covered by quarantine zone, as well as Kyiv, Sumy and Poltava regions.

As a part of the CSF prevention system, the Ministry of Agriculture announced the implementation of new regulations for the transport of live pigs, pig products and by-products, and genetic material in different states and regions.

As a health control measure, the municipalities of El Playón, Lebrija, Bucaramanga, Girón and Rionegro were quarantined.

The OIE has reported two outbreaks of PRRS in Cambodia, located in Chi Kraeng and Soutr Nikom (Siem Reap), with a total of 33,680 susceptible animals of which 2,661 cases and 997 deaths.

The issues were related to food safety of marketed animal products under the conditions of ASF wide spread in Ukraine.

Although Seneca Valley Virus in swine is not considered to be a production limiting infection, the resemblance of its symptoms to Foot-and-mouth disease is cause for vigilance.

July, 28ththe disease was recorded in Kalyta, PJSC in Kyiv region, which is one of the biggest pig complexes of Ukraine. This was the first commercial farmoutbreak.

ICA declared a state of health emergency in several municipalities in the department of Sucre, where there have been outbreaks of Classical Swine Fever

The disease was detected in domestic indigenous breed of pigs reared under a free range system in a communal set up.