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The new outbreaks ara located in Victor Khanye, Mpumalanga (7 outbreaks) and Lesedi, Gauteng (2 outbreaks).

In the first semester of 2011 the total sales of antibiotics in the veterinary sector were 32% below the level of the same period in 2009.

The restriction was applied from June when classical swine fever virus was detected in pig farms.

The Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety has detected chloramphenicol in urine samples from pigs.

Some of the feeder pigs at a quarantine station, which were transported from Taiwan Island to Penghu Island, were found with vesicular lesions.

Stamping out of all susceptible animals was completed on 9 January 2012.

There are 7480 susceptible animals, 389 cases and 389 deaths.

Dr Bernard Vallat, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), presented the organisation’s priorities for 2012 in the fight against biological threats.

Because of the rapid deterioration of the epizootic situation of African swine fever (ASF) in Russia, the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus calls on regional authorities to take additional measures to prevent spreading of this disease on its territory, reported in the ministry.

According to the latest report by Italian veterinary authorities to the SCFCAH, from 06.12.2011 to 03.01.2012 four outbreaks of ASF in domestic swine and 1 in the wild boar occurred in the Province of Nuoro (high-risk zone).

In the years 2007-2010 the total sales of antibiotics decreased by 23%.