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Showing only stories from the FAD category: "Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America. -- show all categories
May 17, 2024 —
Although the lessons learned are different for each stakeholder group, Yvette Johnson-Walker, DVM and senior lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois...
April 3, 2024 —
APHIS has created a landing page with recent announcements pertaining to HPAI detections in livestock, as well as biosecurity information and other resources. Going forward, APHIS will post confirmed...
March 13, 2024 —
The Framework for Interstate and Intrastate Movement Decisions During a Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak in the U.S. is the result of a two-year effort to build consensus and develop criteria for...
March 6, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
The Swine Health Information Center and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) partnered to fund a $1 million research program to enhance US prevention, preparedness, and response...
March 6, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
In early 2022, Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) expanded into new regions of Australia, affecting over 80 swine breeding farms and causing significant production losses. Having never been detected...
February 15, 2024 —
African swine fever (ASF) has not entered the U.S. thanks to continuing efforts to prevent this deadly swine disease from reaching the country's borders. However, ASF continues to affect swine herds...
February 5, 2024 —
African swine fever (ASF) has been detected in over 50 countries in recent years. It continues to spread across Europe, Asia and Africa. Although this deadly disease of swine may seem miles away, the...
December 31, 2023 —
Pork production is a major U.S. agricultural industry with an estimated production value of $30 billion in 2022, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics...
December 20, 2023 —
Abstract: African Swine Fever: A Review of Current Disease Management Strategies and Risks Associated with Exhibition Swine in the United States African swine fever is a high-consequence foreign...
November 1, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
The US swine industry, including the Swine Health Information Center, continues to prepare for the possible incursion of Japanese encephalitis virus in pigs. The threat of JEV has prompted the USDA...
October 23, 2023 —
The Swine Medicine Education Center will hold four, two-day training sessions for the Certified Swine Sample Collector program. These trainings will be geared toward individuals with limited swine...
October 23, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
In 2019, the Swine Health Information Center, with support from the National Pork Producers Council, received a grant from USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service division to fund a multi-phase project...
October 17, 2023 —
Keeping U.S. animals healthy is a top priority for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). One of the agency's many efforts is to prevent deadly foreign animal diseases like...
October 15, 2023 —
This survey is an integral part of AASV's and the swine industry's efforts to convince USDA that oral fluids should be included as a sample type for surveillance and diagnostic use against ASF and...
October 4, 2023 —
This survey is an integral part of AASV's and the swine industry's efforts to convince USDA that oral fluids should be included as a sample type for surveillance and diagnostic use against ASF and...
October 4, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is celebrating the Agency's many successful efforts to prevent African swine fever (ASF) from reaching the...
September 27, 2023 —
This survey is an integral part of AASV's and the swine industry's efforts to convince USDA that oral fluids should be included as a sample type for surveillance and diagnostic use against ASF and...
September 26, 2023 —
The Swine Medicine Education Center will hold four, two-day training sessions for the Certified Swine Sample Collector program. These trainings will be geared toward individuals with limited swine...
September 20, 2023 —
This survey is an integral part of AASV's and the swine industry's efforts to convince USDA that oral fluids should be included as a sample type for surveillance and diagnostic use against ASF and...
September 13, 2023 —
This survey is an integral part of AASV's and the swine industry's efforts to convince USDA that oral fluids should be included as a sample type for surveillance and diagnostic use against ASF and...
August 25, 2023 —
Two recent studies on the devastating impact of an African swine fever outbreak in the United States underscore the importance of biosecurity for pork producers. A May 2023 Iowa State University...
August 10, 2023 —
The Government of Canada is investing $944,340 to the Manitoba Pork Council through the African Swine Fever Industry Preparedness Program to help Canada's pork industry prepare for the possibility of...
August 2, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Vietnam has officially approved the domestic commercial use of two locally manufactured vaccines against African swine fever. With this decision,...
August 2, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
The potential for Japanese encephalitis virus transmission and spread in the US is the focus of a new investigation led by Dr. Natalia Cernicchiaro, Kansas State University College of Veterinary...
July 25, 2023 —
The Swine Medicine Education Center will hold four, two-day training sessions for the Certified Swine Sample Collector program. These trainings will be geared toward individuals with limited swine...
July 25, 2023 —
Abstract: Enhanced passive surveillance for early detection of African and classical swine feversAfrican swine fever (ASF) and classical swine fever (CSF) are transboundary animal diseases (TADs) of...
July 24, 2023 —
Vietnam has approved the domestic commercial use of two home-grown vaccines against African swine fever (ASF), the government said on Monday, making them the world's first commercial vaccines against...
July 24, 2023 —
As part of the annual conference of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Agriculture, Canadian Ministers confirmed their commitment to respond to animal disease outbreaks through the...
July 19, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
Due to the ongoing risk of Japanese encephalitis virus emergence in the US, the Swine Health Information Center funded a systematic literature review intended to increase understanding of the virus's...
July 8, 2023 —
The Swine Medicine Education Center will hold four, two-day training sessions for the Certified Swine Sample Collector program. These trainings will be geared toward individuals with limited swine...
The complete archive, including older stories, is here
Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues