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More than 100 nations support new strategy on livestock disease FAO/OIE Global Strategy to control Foot-and-Mouth Disease benefits farmers and consumers

Bangkok – Farmers and consumers stand to benefit from a new global strategy to control the spread of a deadly livestock disease that was endorsed today by representatives from more than 100 countries and international donors at a conference in Bangkok organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Read More »

July 2, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, and Countermeasures
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Pandemic Flu Risk Raised by Lax Hog-Farm Surveillance

(Wired.com) The great lesson of the 2009 influenza pandemic was that new, deadly flu strains wouldn’t necessarily emerge from the pathogenic hotbox of an Asian animal market. They could start in the western world’s own backyard, percolating from the incubators of modern farms. Yet despite the fact that pig farms hosted, and arguably fueled, the Read More »

June 27, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, South America, Agriculture, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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UN food agency calls for collective action to combat foot-and-mouth disease

(UN News Centre) Collective action and solid commitments to a global strategy are necessary to control foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the United Nations food agency stressed today. “Recent FMD outbreaks around the globe demonstrate that animal diseases have no boundaries, can have a devastating impact and require a global response,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Read More »

June 27, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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World Health Organization Perspective on Implementation of International Health Regulations

(Emerging Infectious Diseases) In 2005, the International Health Regulations were adopted at the 58th World Health Assembly; in June 2007, they were entered into force for most countries. In 2012, the world is approaching a major 5-year milestone in the global commitment to ensure national capacities to identify, investigate, assess, and respond to public health Read More »

June 22, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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FLU NEWS SCAN: Global flu activity, H5N1 vaccine in Thailand

(CIDRAP) Globally, only regional pockets show increased flu activity. Global flu activity remains low with the exception of Hong Kong, Madagascar, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, health officials report. “Influenza activity in the northern hemisphere temperate regions is continuing to decline or back to baseline levels indicating the season is ending,” the World Health Read More »