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Hogs, Livestock

South Korea Lifts Live Hog Import Ban

South Korea said Aug. 11 it would resume imports of live swine from North America, lifting a ban imposed since the outbreak of H1N1 flu in April. South Korea is one of several countries including Russia and China that slapped bans on imports of pork products or live hogs on flu fears, which has hit
Hogs, News

China Erects Pork Wall At Alberta Border

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Don’t get Grant Lazaruk going about H1N1. And don’t ever let him hear you call it swine flu. The disease and its unfortunate name have been nothing but a headache for Lazaruk’s company Hytek Ltd. and its hog processing plant, Springhill Farms in Neepawa. That’s because Hytek was recently forced to ship pork to China
Crops, Hogs

Flu Crossed Back From Hogs To Inspectors: Reports

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Two Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers may be the first known cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza crossing from hogs to humans. The CFIA employees, who both have tested positive for the flu strain recently elevated to pandemic status, were working in late April on a quarantined Rocky Mountain House, Alta.-area farm which, at the time,
Hogs, Livestock

Swine Flu Vaccine Not Tested On New H1N1

A new swine flu vaccine available to protect herds against traditional H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes, has no data available to demonstrate FluSure XP’s efficacy against the newly emerged A H1N1 global virus, Pfizer Animal Health says in a release. FluSure XP is the first swine vaccine to be licensed under new Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Hogs, Livestock

Canadian Pork Can Now Be Sold To Russia

MOSCOW/REUTERS Russia said on July 17 it would lift a ban on live pigs and raw pork imports from the U. S. state of Wisconsin and Canada’s Ontario province from July 18 due to what it said was a “stabilization” of the situation of the H1N1 virus in those places. The animal and plant health
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Nonpandemic Flu Strain Found In Saskatchewan

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Federal health officials are working with the Saskatchewan government to assess and monitor the public health risk posed by a new strain of influenza that has been detected in that province. The new strain was detected in two workers on a hog farm in Saskatchewan. The workers suffered only mild illness and have recovered fully,
Hogs, Livestock

Sask. Crop Insurance Changes Welcome

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Saskatchewan Stock Growers president Calvin Knoss welcomed changes to that province’s crop insurance program in response to drought conditions in northwest and west-central Saskatchewan. “We appreciate the efforts of federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and our Saskatchewan minister, Bob Bjornerud, in moving these changes forward so quickly,” said Knoss. “The three measures announced today stand
Hogs, Opinion

Hog Sector Needs Support

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The onslaught of negative consumer perceptions around H1N1 Influenza A has added to the Canadian pork industry’s situation. High feed costs, a strong Canadian dollar, low hog prices, the economic crisis reducing access to credit, and Country of Origin Labelling have, over the years, undermined Canadian pork producers. The onslaught of negative consumer perceptions around
Hogs, Livestock

Source Of Infection A Mystery

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency insists a herd of pigs in Alberta infected with the H1N1 swine flu got it from a person, even though a prime suspect in the case was cleared. “Contact with an infected person remains the most likely source of infection on this farm,” CFIA said in a statement last week
Hogs, Livestock

Canada Keeps Pushing On Pork Bans

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Canada is cont inuing efforts to end bans on Canadian hogs and pork in the face of the global pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization, say Trade Minister Stockwell Day and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Twelve countries, including China and the Philippines, still ban pork from Alberta or Canada following the discovery of the

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