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Don’t Just Worry. Practise Equine Biosecurity

October 27, 2011

staff / The Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer issued an alert Oct. 19 urging Manitoba horse owners to incorporate basic biosecurity into their horse handling and travels after reports that a recent outbreak of Equine herpes virus myelonencephalopathy (EHM) may have a Brandon connection. Three horses from an out-of-province facility began exhibiting clinical signs

Livestock, News, Pulses

In Brief… – for Jul. 22, 2010

July 22, 2010

New faces at the NFU: The Saskatoon-based National Farmers Union has a new administration after incumbents Darrin Qualman and Terry Pugh resigned to pursue other opportunities. Ross Hinther, a Saskatoon-area cattle and organic grains farmer, is the NFU’s new director of research. Kevin Wipf, formerly a political science and public policy instructor at the University

Livestock

Glaxo’s Rotavirus Vaccine Use Suspended

March 25, 2010

U. S. doctors have been told to temporarily stop using GlaxoSmithKline Plc’sRotarix vaccine against a diarrhea-causing virus called rotavirus because it is contaminated with porcine circovirus Type 1, the company said March 22. The virus is not known to cause disease in humans or animals, but the U. S. Food and Drug Administration is suspending

Hogs, Livestock

New Pig Disease Poses A Puzzle

By Ron Friesen February 11, 2010

“These pigs look very similar to pigs that simply starve to death.” – JOHN HARDING, U OF S Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan have discovered a new and baffling swine ailment in which newly weaned pigs fail to eat and starve to death. Postweaning Wasting/ Catabolic Syndrome (PWCS), can cause death losses of up

News

In Brief… – for Aug. 6, 2009

August 6, 2009

El Nińo coming: Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology says an El Nińo weather system in the Pacific Ocean would be established by September-November at the latest. The bureau said there was now agreement between international weather models that an El Nińo, which can bring drought conditions to Australia and weaken Asian monsoons, would be established by

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Circovirus Vaccine Label Update

By Wyeth Animal Health June 18, 2009

Canadian swine producers can now protect piglets one week earlier against porcine circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) with a new change to the Suvaxyn PCV2 vaccine label. The new label changes the age pigs can be vaccinated from four weeks to three weeks of age. “The sooner producers are able to begin protecting young pigs from

Hogs, Other

Philippines investigates Ebola in pigs

January 1, 2009

The Philippines has asked the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for help in stopping the spread of Ebola-Reston virus after an infection was found in some hog farms early this year, an official said on Dec. 17. The Agriculture Department has sent requests to the FAO to test an initial 10,000 swine in two

Daily Network News

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U.S. livestock: Cattle rally, hogs slide

Tag Archives Viruses

Don’t Just Worry. Practise Equine Biosecurity

In Brief… – for Jul. 22, 2010

Glaxo’s Rotavirus Vaccine Use Suspended

New Pig Disease Poses A Puzzle

In Brief… – for Aug. 6, 2009

Circovirus Vaccine Label Update

Philippines investigates Ebola in pigs

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