Tag: OIE

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 - 05:13 UTC

  Southern states of Brazil free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination

  

  Four additional Brazilian states have been recognized as free of foot-and-mouth disease without the need for vaccinations, by the World Organization for Animal Health, OIE.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  African swine fever will spread further and no country is immune, OIE

  

  African swine fever will spread further across Asia where it has devastated herds, and no country is immune from being hit by the deadly animal virus, the head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 19:42 UTC

  FAO and OIE call on countries to comply with destruction of “rinderpest” virus samples

  

  The UN's food agency FAO and the OIE (Animal health organization) called on countries on to comply with a 2011 global moratorium and destroy potentially dangerous “rinderpest” virus samples or put them into safe storage.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:07 UTC

  Argentina reports the US and Japan before the WTO for restrictions on beef and lemons

  

  Argentina announced it has formally reported the United States and Japan before the World Trade Organization for the constant barriers set to Argentina’s meat and lemon exports to the afore mentioned countries.

• Wednesday, March 21st 2012 - 06:57 UTC

  Schmallenberg disease outbreak in Europe: Uruguay bans import of genetic material

  

  Uruguay’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries has imposed a transitory ban on all genetic material imports from Europe following the outbreak of the disease Schmallenberg which attacks bovines, sheep, goats and buffalos.

• Wednesday, March 14th 2012 - 23:52 UTC

  Brazilian vessel looses half 5.000 cattle on board and has no port to dock

  

  An animal welfare disaster resulting in the death of more than half the 5.000 cattle on board a Brazilian-owned live export ship bound for Egypt over the past fortnight has prompted renewed calls to ban the industry.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 22:18 UTC

  Paraguayan FMD outbreak in September was caused by “human negligence”

  

  Paraguay’s Livestock Service has confirmed that negligence in the handling of foot and mouth disease vaccines was the cause for the September FMD outbreak that forced the country to cease exports. The announcement discards doubts about the quality of the vaccines.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2011 - 07:22 UTC

  Conference to upgrade international movement of horses in South America

  

  The FEI (International Equestrian Federation) and the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) will jointly host a conference in Guadalajara, Mexico on 24 October focusing on modernizing international movement of horses in South America.

• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 18:36 UTC

  FMD, PPR, brucellosis and rabies, next FAO-OIE disease elimination targets

  

  Foot and mouth disease, FMD, brucellosis, rabies and Pest des Petites Rumiants (PPR) are the next disease-elimination targets for FAO and OIE following success over rinderpest. The FAO conference officially recognized last week global freedom from the deadly cattle virus.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 18:47 UTC

  Desperate call from FAO for aid to North Korea to combat spread of FMD

  

  Around one million US dollars of equipment and vaccines are urgently needed to help stem outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in North Korea, where farm animals are crucial to food security, the United Nations warned.