News Archive
Canada steps up horse slaughter guidelines
15 Mar 2010 - On Jan. 29, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued health requirements for all horses bound for slaughter in Canada; the new requirements come into effect July 31. Read more >>
Meeting: European Platform for the Responsible Use of Medicines in Animals
15 Mar 2010 - The 11th meeting of the EPRUMA Group was held on 25th February. Read more >>
Intervet/Shering Plough vaccine tested againsty BVDV type 1 and 2
12 Mar 2010 - Researchers at the Biological Research and Development at Intervet/Schering Plough Animal Health USA looked at the fetal protection against bovine viral diarrhoea virus types 1 and 2 after the use of a modified-live virus vaccine. Read more >>
17th case of BSE in Canada confirmed
12 Mar 2010 - A 17th case of mad cow disease has been reported in Canada. The president of Canada Beef Export Federation says this will not affected Canada's market position. Read more >>
Less in-feed antibiotics used in the Philippines
12 Mar 2010 - The usage of antibiotics in animal feed in the Philippines declined sharply last year as the country moved to stop the use of various drugs that could cause health problems for consumers, the government said. Read more >>
European pigs experts to meet in Hanover for 2nd ESPHM
11 Mar 2010 - From May 26 to 28, 2010 the 2nd European Symposium on Porcine Health Management (ESPHM) will be held in Hanover, Germany. Read more >>
US Homeland Security names co-leads in disease defense programme
11 Mar 2010 - The Department of Homeland Security in the US has advised Texas A&M University and Kansas State University that they will serve as co-leads for its zoonotic and animal disease defense programme for the next six years. Read more >>
Feeding citrus could reduce Salmonella and E. coli
11 Mar 2010 - The essential oils in orange peel and pulp kill E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella, according to research presented at the 2010 Beef Industry Safety Summit. Read more >>
Low pathogenic avian influenza found in Denmark
10 Mar 2010 - At a Danish duck farm in Fuglebjerg, Southwest of the island of Sjælland, the presence of low pathogenic avian influenza type H7 has been reported, according to the Danish Ministry of Agriculture. Read more >>
New Bill: Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty
10 Mar 2010 - US Reps. Diane Watson, D-Calif., and Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., have introduced the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act to set a higher animal welfare standard for food purchased by the federal government. Read more >>
Pig herds in Ireland practically Aujeszky-free
10 Mar 2010 - The Irish pig industry will soon commence final testing for Aujeszky's Disease in its herds. This should lead to the European Commission declaring Ireland officially free from Aujeszky's Disease. Read more >>
Eli Lilly to acquire Pfizer animal health parts
10 Mar 2010 - The animal health division of drugmaker Eli Lilly will acquire the rights to a portfolio of Pfizer products in Europe, including vaccines and feed additives. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read more >>
Germany: Warning system for swine aggressiveness
09 Mar 2010 - The University of Veterinary Medicine (TiHo) in Hanover, Germany has announced to develop an early warning system in relation to swine aggressiveness. Read more >>
The Netherlands make restart Q fever vaccination
09 Mar 2010 - On March 8, a restart of the Q fever programme has been made in the Netherlands with vaccinating the first goat farm in Sellingen. All the nearly 900 animals on the organic farm were vaccinated for the first time. Uptill now, there was not enough vaccine available. Read more >>
Sanofi-aventis and Merck to create a new animal health JV
09 Mar 2010 - Sanofi-aventis exercises its option to combine Merial with Intervet/Schering-Plough in a new equally-owned joint venture with Merck. Read more >>
Dutch veterinarians stop using cephalosporins in poultry
08 Mar 2010 - Following is the growing concern about the prevalence of Extended Spectrum Beta-lactamase (ESBL)-carrying bacteria in broilers, the Poultry Health Department of the Royal Dutch Society for Veterinary Medicine (KNMvD) urged veterinarians to stop using cephalosporins in poultry. Read more >>
Michigan testing animal-disease alert system
08 Mar 2010 - Michigan agriculture officials have developed the Animal Health Network. In the event of a disease outbreak, officials can use the network to “get the word out to small and hobby farmers, people least likely to see it” in commercial trade journals or through farm organizations, State veterinarian Steven Halstead said. Read more >>
World Veterinary Day: 'One World, One Health'
08 Mar 2010 - World Veterinary Day 2010, which will be on 24 April, will raise awareness of the links between animal and public health through the theme "One World, One Health: more cooperation between veterinarians and physicians." Read more >>
Hong Kong: flu reassorts with H1N1 from pig
05 Mar 2010 - In its regular influenza virus surveillance programme, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) found that one sample taken from a pig at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse early January, contained a virus which was essentially a swine influenza virus (SIV) but had picked up a pandemic H1N1 gene by genetic reassortment. Read more >>
Australian dairy herd found free from EBL
05 Mar 2010 - Australian dairy exporters will benefit from improved access to overseas markets after every dairy herd in the nation was found to be free from Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (EBL), an occasional infectious viral disease of dairy cattle.
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