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A combined agency will start work this autumn to ensure government is better equipped to prevent the spread of animal and plant diseases.

The pig farm is located in the Barrio El Carbón (Ocaña, Norte de Santander).

On the farm there are 10,908 susceptible animals of which 1,341 cases.

An update of EU control measures to combat the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) was endorsed by Member State experts.

Estonia becomes the fourth country in the EU to notify cases of PPA.

Positive samples were collected on August 9, 2013 (3 samples) and October 6, 2013.

The state of foot-and-mouth disease in the north of Africa worsens with the notification of the first outbreak in Algeria (where the last outbreak had been notified in 1999), and the spreading of the disease to Tunisia.

In order to focus animal health control measures and to prevent the spread of African swine fever is necessary to replace the Annex to Implementing Decision 2014/178/EU to include the relevant areas of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

The ICA (Colombian Agriculture and Livestock Institute) has established as compulsory the vaccination against CSF in the departments of Atlántico, Bolívar, Córdoba, La Guajira, Magdalena, Sucre and some municipalities of Cesar and Norte de Santander.

This is the first outbreak of the disease since 1996.

According to the testing results of affected farms from regional and national laboratories, 34 pig farms were confirmed being infected with PEDV.