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FAO and OIE rally against swine fever a.k.a. “the other virus”

By News Desk on October 28, 2020

The world needs to rally under a new initiative to bring the deadly pig disease known as African Swine fever (ASF) under control.

That’s the word from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United …
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African Swine Fever kept out of U.S. but pork remains threatened around the world

By Dan Flynn on July 21, 2020

What if the coronavirus never made the leap from Asia to North America? COVID-19 would still be infecting millions in Europe, Africa, and  Asia, but not in the United States or Canada. North Americans would…
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EFSA’s lumpy skin disease recommendation shows promise

By News Desk on February 22, 2018

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reports vaccines are working against lumpy skin disease but says the ailment has not been eliminated. According to EFSA, outbreaks of lumpy skin disease (LSD) in the Balkan region…
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Bird flu deaths bring live poultry market ban in Hunan province

By Dan Flynn on February 9, 2017

Live poultry sales are being shut down in China’s central Hunan province because one strain of bird flu has turned deadly for people. Americans are being cautioned about the outbreak, but are not being warned…
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Brazil’s Second Cow With BSE Likely An Atypical Case

By News Desk on May 14, 2014

The animal with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) recently found in Brazil was probably an atypical case, according to the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratory in Weybridge, England. Atypical BSE, or “mad cow” disease, is a…
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Risk of Mad Cow Now Found To Be "Negligible" in U.S. Beef

By Dan Flynn on February 21, 2013

A powerful world panel is recommending that the United States be dropped to the lower “negligible” risk classification for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease, an opinion praised by Secretary of Agriculture Tom…
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Five Importing Nations Ban Beef from Brazil Over Mad Cow

By News Desk on December 19, 2012

Five counties – not including the United States — have now banned Brazilian beef entirely as a precaution after the country’s handling of an incident of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in 2010. Japan, China, South…
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Brazil Works to Minimize Reaction to Mad Cow Incident

By Dan Flynn on December 12, 2012

Brazil continues to downplay its first and belated report of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease, and its strategy may be working. Except for Japan, Brazil’s 2010 Mad Cow incident is not resulting…
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