Australia: Research in reducing PWD in piglets
19 Mar 2010 - Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has found a positive link between feeding encapsulated Zinc oxide and reducing post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) in piglets. Read more >>
ECO Animal Health forms N. America distribution JV
19 Mar 2010 - ECO Animal Health Group PLC said ECO Animal Health Ltd has formed a joint venture with Pharmgate LLC of Ramsey, New Jersey, aimed at distributing the partners’ veterinary products in the North American livestock and poultry markets. Read more >>
Report: Brain disease vaccine developed – pigs tested
18 Mar 2010 - The spread of a fatal form of brain disease can be virtually eliminated by a vaccine developed by a team of scientists from University of Melbourne, led by Professor Marshall Lightowlers of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, who said that the team had been striving towards eradication of the parasite involved for almost thirty years. Read more >>
AVMA tackles veterinary shortage with new program
17 Mar 2010 - The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), as part of its ongoing effort to boost the number of food animal veterinarians in the US, introduces an educational debt relief program for those veterinarians whose job it is to keep food animals healthy and the food supply safe. Read more >>
Armenia reports new case of African Swine Fever
16 Mar 2010 - Armenia has reported an outbreak of African Swine Fever, according to reports of the International Organization for Animal Health. 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
OIE: $2 mln from Canada for animal health activities
04 Mar 2010 - Canada Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced on a visit to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that Canada will contribute CAN$2 mln to support OIE activities. Read more >>
African Swine Fever outbreak close to Ukraine
04 Mar 2010 - A new case of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been reported in the South Russian Rostov region, this time in Gukovo – at 5 km of the Russian-Ukranian border. Read more >>
Dutch evaluate anaesthesised piglet castration
04 Mar 2010 - The Dutch ministry of agriculture (LNV) considers the use of CO2 gas to anaesthesise male piglets before castration an adequate temporal solution until a full ban on castration is reached in 2015.
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Occurrence of Clostridium perfringens in Swiss piglets
03 Mar 2010 - A research team of the "Schweineklinik der Universität Bern" in Switzerland studies the effect of necrotic enteritis incidence on farms and the presence of Clostridium. Read more >>
US research into the reduction of E. coli O157 in swine
02 Mar 2010 - Although the current trend is to discourage the continued use of antibiotics in livestock, Iowa State University showed that antibiotics may be helpful in reducing the pathogen E. coli O157:H7 in pigs. Read more >>
UK studies the efficacy of sow AI strategies
02 Mar 2010 - Research by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), Northern Ireland, UK, has compared the efficacy of various insemination strategies in sows. Success in their use 'would greatly depend on accurate and timely heat detection and subsequent insemination.' Read more >>
K-State names Dr. Steven Henry as its 2010 Alumni Fellow
01 Mar 2010 - Kansas State University has selected Dr. Steven C. Henry, Solomon, Kan., as the 2010 Alumni Fellow in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Read more >>
Chinese city orders perks for pigs pre-slaughter
26 Feb 2010 - A city in central China is advocating a more humane way of killing pigs to improve the taste of the pork, ordering they get up to a day of rest and relaxation before they go to the slaughterhouse. Read more >>
Livestock groups discuss antibiotic use in Washington, DC
25 Feb 2010 - Livestock and poultry groups hosted educational briefings this week in Washington, DC about antibiotic use in raising food animals two weeks after a CBS Evening News report questioned the practice. Read more >>
LifeChips now also used to develop new swine vaccines
24 Feb 2010 - Digital Angel, a technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, announced that its Destron Fearing unit has been chosen to provide its Bio-Thermo® LifeChips® and DTR-4® hand-held readers to researchers to aid in the development of vaccines. Read more >>
European Porcine Circovirus Research Award to Spain and Denmark
23 Feb 2010 - Prof. Maurice Pensaert, former head of the Laboratory of Virology of the Ghent University and Dr. Joachim Hasenmaier, Head of Corporate Division Animal Health at Boehringer Ingelheim awarded two projects with the European Porcine Circovirus Research Award. Read more >>
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