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Disease Threats To Canadian Livestock Persist

By Alex Binkley June 9, 2011

Despite a recent triumph in the battle against serious animal diseases, Canada must remain vigilant against new and old threats to its livestock industries, says the chief food safety officer. Climate change and global trade patterns are helping spread new viruses from Africa to Europe and other countries, Brian Evans, vice-president of the Canadian Food

News

New Findings On Foot-And-Mouth

May 12, 2011

Scientists studying foot-and-mouth disease have found that cattle with the virus are infectious for only a very short time, suggesting that mass culling previously used to reduce the disease’s spread may in future be avoided. In research published in the journal ScienceMay 5, scientists found that even if the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus is detected

Livestock

Pigs Fly First Class

May 5, 2011

There will be no in-flight movie or cocktails but the squealing passengers on the 16-hour one-way trip will fly first class. About 235 hogs specially selected for their genes will be flown from Chicago to South Korea in June to rebuild the herd there that has been decimated by foot-and-mouth disease. Tony Clayton, president of

Hogs, Livestock

Foot-And-Mouth Surfaces In Two Countries

April 7, 2011

China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang has reported an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among pigs, which killed 25 hogs and sickened 58, the second outbreak in the region so far in the year, the Ministry of Agriculture said. The recent outbreak was less serious than the one reported in February, when 3,941 pigs were culled. The

Livestock, Other livestock

Bulgaria Culls 130 Cattle For FMD

March 31, 2011

Veterinary teams will cull 130 cattle in a southeastern Bulgarian village after tests showed another outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Balkan country. The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said six out of seven samples taken from a herd tested positive for the highly contagious disease. This is the fifth outbreak of foot-and-mouth since the beginning

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Other livestock

N. Korea Must Step Up Fight On Foot-And-Mouth — FAO

March 31, 2011

North Korea’s capacity to detect and contain outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in livestock needs significant strengthening, the UN food agency FAO and the world animal health body OIE said Mar. 24. The FAO and the OIE, which sent a joint mission in the reclusive communist state in late February-early March, said FMD cases have been

Hogs, Livestock

South Korea Re-Opens Slaughterhouses

March 10, 2011

South Korea, battling against its worst foot-and- mouth outbreak, said March 2 it had reopened most slaughterhouses nationwide to ease a supply shortage after closing them to contain the animal disease. The government of Asia’s fourth-largest economy said in a separate statement that it had confirmed 150 cases in 11 provinces in three months so

Crops

North Korea Confirms Foot-And-Mouth Outbreak

February 17, 2011

North Korea has confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth disease across the country and lodged the outbreak with the UN food agency. South Korean media reported that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would dispatch a team next week to help the reclusive state contain the outbreak. The North’s KCNA state news agency said the most affected

Hogs, News

South Korea’s Recovery From Foot-And-Mouth Slow

By Cho Mee-young February 10, 2011

South Korea’s swine industry could take one or two years to recover from a foot-and-mouth epidemic that has boosted meat purchases by one of the world’s top pork importers. A long-term boost to the country’s pork imports, mainly from the United States, could support U.S. hog futures already at record highs partly on the back

Livestock

CFIA Learned From Animal Disease Outbreaks

By Alex Binkley November 4, 2010

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is usually the target of complaints from farmers, consumers and the food industry but for once Auditor General Sheila Fraser has kind words for the agency. In her latest report on government spending, Fraser says CFIA has learned from its past experiences with animal disease outbreaks that threaten farmers and

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