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"Pig Fever" is sweeping through the expanding Chinese swine industry, according to swine veterinarians who have traveled there this fall. University of Nottingham, England, swine veterinarians Steven McOrist and Stan Done observed the outbreak first-hand during a recent visit to China's swine veteri...
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Agriculture Online
Date of publication :
11/29/2006
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251
To meet the growing demand for high-health stock, both at home and abroad, international pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd is setting up fresh production facilities.
Three new farms, a high-health 400-sow dam-line nucleus unit, a 500-sow multiplication unit and a 200-sow high-health boar nucleus unit...
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ACMC Ltd.
Date of publication :
11/14/2006
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166
Croatia was hit with a new outbreak of classical swine fever, the worst so far in the Balkans country, as some 3,600 pigs will be slaughtered to prevent the spread of the disease, the agriculture ministry has said.
Croatia's veterinary institute confirmed the presence of the swine fever virus at...
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Today Online
Date of publication :
10/25/2006
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208
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI) announced this week that it has received approval from the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for a new vaccine called Ingelvac CircoFLEX to protect swine against diseases caused by porcine circovirus type-2 (PCV2).
According to Klaas Okkin...
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Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.
Date of publication :
10/24/2006
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111
The Department of Agriculture has extended the campaign to eradicate an outbreak of classical swine fever in the Eastern Cape by another six months.
The department said the outbreak was under control with large numbers of infected pigs having been culled.
"As a result, the number of cases [of ...
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BusNews Online
Date of publication :
10/13/2006
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167
An Advanced Listeria monocytogenes Intervention and Control Workshop, presented by the American Meat Institute Foundation, will be held Nov. 14-15 at the Hyatt Regency Denver in Denver, Colorado.
The workshop is designed to help manufacturers of ready-to-eat meat and meat products examine the is...
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AMIF
Date of publication :
10/09/2006
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115
Lucta S.A., a worldwide leader in the field of palatability enhancers for animals, announces the opening of its Swine Experimental Unit (SEU), where studies on swine preferences and voluntary feed and water intake, among others, will be conducted. The research unit is located 80 km North of the Barc...
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Lucta
Date of publication :
10/06/2006
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230
A Commission proposal to approve Romania's eradication plan and emergency vaccination programme for classical swine fever was endorsed by the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health yesterday.
The Bulgarian eradication plan and emergency vaccination programme (for wild boars) had a...
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Standing Comm. on the Food Chain and Animal Health
Date of publication :
10/05/2006
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192
Dutch researchers said they've found community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) among pig farmers and their families that can be traced to the animals themselves.
CA-MRSA is a cause of skin and soft tissue infections such as abscesses, furuncles, and cellulitis. Alt...
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I.C.A.A.C.
Date of publication :
10/03/2006
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179
Prionics now offers a comprehensive set of four tests for the diagnosis of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) in all stages of the disease. The tests, developed by Cedi-Diagnostics, are suited for many applications including the detection of infected animals in a vaccinated population.
Through the acqu...
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Prionics
Date of publication :
09/29/2006
Views:
222