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There are currently 25 teams in the zone around the outbreak and in the surveillance zone and 13,333 blood samples.

Vietnam’s prime minister has allocated an additional VND 70.6 billion (USD3.36 million) for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to buy animal-disease vaccine and disinfection chemicals for national reserve in 2011.

Around a million dollars of equipment and vaccines are urgently required to help stem outbreaks of deadly Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) in North Korea, followed by a more prolonged and concerted effort to modernize veterinary services in the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Finance jointly filed a new regulation on animal vaccination for prevention of epidemic diseases in 2011.

The European Commission has sent a consignment of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine to Zambia in order to help the African nation's efforts in fighting an outbreak of the disease in the northern part of the country. The consignment consists of 80,000 doses of FMD vaccine.

South Korea on Monday decided to expand areas where vaccination will be administered in the face of the country's severest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the government said.

A vaccine against porcine circovirus (PCV) has been successfully developed in Henan Province and granted the National Registration Certificate for New Veterinary Drug and the production approval document number as well as the approval to be marketed as a national-level new veterinary drug of the second category from the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).

As the spread of FMD still continued and the disease outbreak risk is still high, the Cabinet has decided to allocate MNT300 million for the purchase of 600,000 dozes of vaccine from Russia and for injection costs.

The European Commission has granted clearance under the EU Merger Regulation to the acquisition of animal health assets of Pfizer by Eli Liily & Co, both of the USA.

The American Association of Swine Veterinarians will release a document with recommendations on the Pandemic H1N1 disease and the risk it poses to the U.S. swine herd, according to Rodney “Butch” Baker, DVM, AASV president.