Swine news - Pig health

Canada is making significant progress towards the creation of a dedicated foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine bank.

This standard aims to provide minimum standards for safe and effective vaccines.

Inaugural State of the World’s Animal Health report finds several animal diseases reaching new areas, with half of those reported able to jump to people.

The EU and the UK will work on an SPS agreement that would reduce controls and certificates in the trade of agri-food products.

Personal imports for travellers from the EU remain banned.

Slovakia detects its first outbreak of African swine fever in 2025 on a commercial farm with more than 18,000 pigs.

Although FMD is endemic in the Near East, there has been a recent upsurge in outbreaks caused by an exotic serotype likely introduced from East Africa.

Preventive culling of 9,888 pigs on a neighboring farm after detection of the fifth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

A devastating outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) has led to the death of over 500 pigs in Zombo District.

Germany is once again recognized as free of foot-and-mouth disease.

These 68 new projects will increase the United States’ ability to rapidly respond to and control animal disease outbreaks.

In the first quarter of 2025, more than 4,400 cases have already been reported in wild boar and 168 in domestic pigs in 17 European countries. Poland, Germany, and Latvia lead in wild boar, while Romania and Moldova are concerned about the increase in domestic pig cases.

The new Decision identifies new protection and surveillance zones and additional restricted zones in Slovakia and Hungary, as well as additional surveillance zones and restricted zones in Austria.

For the first time, all the 27 countries of the European Union together with Iceland and Norway have collected and reported data on both sales and use of antimicrobials in animals in their countries.

Hungary has confirmed two new outbreaks of FMD and Slovakia confirms its fifth, bordering Austria and near the Czech Republic.

The Member States have agreed to implement an additional restriction zone with a radius of at least 50 km around the outbreaks.

Austria extends its surveillance zone after an FMD outbreak on a Hungarian dairy cattle farm with 3,000 animals near the Austrian border.

Import ban amended following outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany.

Today Slovakia confirmed the presence of foot and mouth disease in the country, affecting three cattle farms.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published its report on antimicrobial resistance in the European Union (EU) for the period 2022-2023.

A restricted ASF zone set up on November 21, 2024 in the district of Oberhavel can be lifted again.

Average biosecurity audit scores for both internal and external biosecurity are increasing slightly.

In EFSA’s yearly report on residues of veterinary medicinal products in live animals and animal products, the trend continued for high compliance with official limits.