The hypothetical return of foot and mouth disease in Canada: What would happen? What actions would be taken on and around Canadian farms? And how can we prevent that scenario from becoming real?
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What happens if foot and mouth disease returns in Canada?: FEATURE STORY
Running down a hypothetical foot and mouth outbreak in Canada, and how we can keep it from becoming real
Germany seeks aid for farmers after foot-and-mouth disease case
Germany's agriculture minister will seek financial aid for farmers hit by the impact of a case of foot-and-mouth disease on a farm in east Germany, the ministry said.
China bans livestock product imports from numerous countries on disease worries
China has prohibited imports of sheep, goat, poultry and even-toed ungulates from African, Asian and European countries due to outbreaks of livestock diseases such as sheep pox, goat pox and foot-and-mouth-disease.
Germany has no new foot-and-mouth disease cases, minister says
Germany has no new cases of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease with a suspect case on Thursday not confirmed, German agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Friday.
German authorities say no more foot-and-mouth disease cases found
Britain halts imports of German pork, other meat and dairy products in effort to stop spread
German authorities said on Tuesday they had found no new cases of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease following intensive testing around the area where the first case was confirmed last week. Britain has banned imports of German pork and other products.
Federal government opens bids for foot and mouth vaccine bank providers
Canadian government opens bids for foot and mouth vaccine bank providers.
Foot-and-mouth a ticking time bomb. Is Canada prepared?
Livestock groups want millions of vaccine doses to be stockpiled but say Ottawa is ‘stalling’
Glacier FarmMedia – Ottawa must stop ignoring requests to create a vaccine bank that could save the country’s livestock sector from a devastating a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, say livestock leaders. Producer organizations want Ottawa to spend $3.2 million per year to create a vaccine bank and strengthen its plans for managing a potential outbreak. The response so far
Indonesia aims to get foot and mouth disease under control
Indonesia is aiming to get its foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak under control by the end of this year, a government official said, as it forges ahead with a program to vaccinate millions of livestock. More than 455,000 livestock in 23 of the archipelago’s 37 provinces have been infected with the disease as of
Brazil expects to be declared free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination
Brazil | Reuters – Brazil expects the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to declare the country free from foot-and-mouth disease with vaccinations at a meeting in May, according to a government statement on Friday. The declaration will bolster the country’s prospects to export meat to new markets, the statement said. The OIE already considers
Fines coming for not reporting pig shipments
It will no longer just be a warning for those who haven’t complied with regulations to report animal movements
You will soon face penalties if you ship pigs without reporting it. “There is a fine structure coming but there has not been a time confirmed yet,” said Jeff Clark, manager of PigTrace Canada, the national swine traceability program. Federal regulations to report pig movements took effect in July of 2014, requiring all shippers and
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