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“This is a natural experiment playing out in front of us, and I don’t think we are complacent.” – Nicola Lewis.
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Flu experts gather with avian influenza risk on agenda

Mammal deaths have underlined the dangers of ignoring the disease

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Reuters – The world’s leading experts on influenza met the last week of February to discuss the threat posed to humans by a strain of H5N1 avian flu that has caused record numbers of bird deaths around the world in recent months. The group of scientists, regulators and vaccine manufacturers meets twice a year to
Avian influenza losses are causing a reconsideration of vaccinations for flocks.
Farmit Manitoba, Poultry

Bird flu alarm drives world towards once-shunned vaccines

It is a balance between preventing trade upset and limiting economic losses

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Reuters – French duck farmer Herve Dupouy has culled his flock four times since 2015 to stop the spread of bird flu but as a wave of deadly outbreaks nears his farm once again, he says it’s time to accept a solution once considered taboo: vaccination. “The goal is that our animals don’t fall ill
Coccidiosis can cause major damage to the intestinal wall in calves, and even death.
Livestock, News

Coccidiosis can affect calves

Coccidiosis is an intestinal parasite that may contaminate feed and water

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Ranchers have seen calves with signs of coccidiosis this fall and winter, according to Gerald Stokka, North Dakota State University Extension’s veterinarian. Coccidiosis is an intestinal disease that affects several different animal species. In cattle, it may produce clinical symptoms in animals from one month to one year of age. Coccidia is a protozoan parasite
News, Poultry

Spain detects two bird flu infections in poultry farm workers

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Two Spanish poultry farm workers tested positive for bird flu following an outbreak in poultry, in what appear to be the first known human infections in Spain and the second in Europe since 2003, the World Health Organization said Nov. 4. The poultry outbreak was confirmed by authorities on Sept. 20 and there has been
Central European Boar. In 2020, an outbreak of African Swine Fever that devastated the German pork industry is suspected to have come from wild pigs from Poland.
Livestock, News

Animal diseases at centre of tri-nation accord meeting

Co-ordinated full-government approach to outbreaks touted

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International cooperation is essential for managing livestock diseases, says Cam Dahl, general manager of Manitoba Pork. Dahl was referring to discussions at the 31st Tri-National Agricultural Accord held in Saltillo, Mexico in October. “There were a lot of discussions around disease and how we work together on potential problems, something that’s absolutely critical,” says Dahl. Manitoba Agriculture Minister
Foot-and-mouth a ticking time bomb. Is Canada prepared?
Livestock, News

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’

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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
File photo of piglets at a hog operation in China. (KuLouKu/iStock/Getty Images)
Hogs, Livestock

Federal funding lined up for programs, planning against swine fever

Two-year package to go toward pork industry work

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The federal government is putting up an eight-figure funding wall to help prevent African swine fever from ever reaching Canada’s hog farms — and to prepare against any breach. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said Aug. 26 the government will provide up to $45.3 million toward a three-pronged effort to boost disease prevention and preparedness: pork
“Fortunately, we did get the agreement in place and these animals could move before animal welfare became a concern.” – Cam Dahl, Manitoba Pork Council.
Livestock, News

Seneca Valley virus pauses cull sow shipments

The U.S. pumped the brakes on two Manitoba assembly yards while the foot-and-mouth mimic was investigated

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The cull hog market was still working through its backlog in the second week of August after an investigation into what turned out to be Seneca Valley virus shut down shipments to the U.S. from two assembly yards in the province. While not a serious disease in and of itself, Seneca Valley virus shares symptoms
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New Zealand raises bar against foot and mouth disease

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Reuters – New Zealand said late July 20 that it had increased measures to prevent foot and mouth disease (FMD) from getting into the country after the illness was recently found in Indonesia.  “With FMD recently found in the tourist hotspot of Bali, we’ve taken concrete steps to boost our work at the border in

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