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 >>
UK: Next step for pig health and biosecurity
22 Feb 2010 - Yorkshire pig producers are proposing new ways to improve pig unit biosecurity. Two producer cluster groups in the Yorkshire and Humberside Health (YHH) programme are now acting as ‘pilot’ clusters. Read more >>
Boar taint vaccination: no impact on behaviour
18 Feb 2010 - The behaviour of male pigs, vaccinated against boar taint, does not create extra problems in the fattening period, when compared to surgically castrated pigs. The study into fattenening pigs was published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science. Read more >>
Castration: Anaesthetics could affect piglet hierarchy
17 Feb 2010 - In castration practices, providing anaesthetic injections may influence a piglet's privileged position at the teats, due to reduced coordination capacities. Only giving a painkiller appears not to have any effect on teat hierarchy in new-born litters. Read more >>
More African Swine Fever in Russia
17 Feb 2010 - The Organization for Animal Health has reported another case of African Swine Fever in Russia, this time in the Krasnodar region, in the South East part of Russia.
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OIE updates technical online disease cards
16 Feb 2010 - OIE Reference Laboratories released an updated compilation of 33 technical disease cards, including 32 OIE-listed priority diseases such as foot and mouth disease, highly pathogenic avian influenza, rift valley fever and bluetongue. Read more >>
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