Pfizer Forms Vaccine Joint Venture
CHINA - Pfizer Animal Health, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., and Jilin Guoyuan Animal Health Co., Ltd. have announced that they will create a joint venture programme to develop, manufacture and distribute...

Compulsory Vaccination Boosts Vaccine Production
CHINA - Continued growth is forecast for the country's veterinary vaccine sector, particularly for pigs and poultry.

Ceva Huadu: New Innovation and R&D Platform
CHINA - A joint venture agreement – to be known as Ceva Huadu – has been signed in Beijing between Ceva and Huadu.

Flu Viruses Rode on Pig Imports into South China
CHINA - China may have unwittingly introduced H1N1 flu viruses when it imported pigs from Europe and North America for breeding over the past few decades, researchers said.

Chief Vet Confirms Need for Modernisation
CHINA - The country's Chief Veterinary Officer has emphasised the tasks on development of the animal husbandry and veterinary services.

More Pigs, More Feed Grain Demand in China
CHINA - Long involved in promoting swine health in China, the US Grains Council’s latest technical training programme is helping Chinese swine producers improve the diagnosis and control of common swine...

New Arrangements on Veterinary Drug Control
CHINA - On 21-22 February 2011, the Bureau of Veterinary of the Ministry of Agriculture held a national meeting on veterinary drug control in Xiamen, Fujian.

Beijing Awards Special Patent for PRRS Vaccine
CHINA - Fifty winners from 188 candidate patents were recently announced as recipients of the Beijing Invention Patent Awards, with the largest proportion going to the electronic communication industry,...

Voets Heads Asia Marketing for Boehringer
CHINA - Dr Harm Voets has moved to a new position as Head of Regional Marketing, Asia in Boehringer Ingelheim International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

PCV Vaccine Developed in Henan
CHINA - A vaccine against porcine circovirus (PCV) has been successfully developed in Henan Province.

Novel Swine Vaccine Approved in China
CHINA - Chinese swine producers have been given the go-ahead to use Improvac®, the novel vaccine that is used in other major swine-producing markets as an alternative to physical castration for the control...

Alternative Way to Test FMD Vaccines
CHINA - Researchers have investigated measuring the median infected dose (PID50) and regulating the live virus challenge dose as an alternative way to test the efficacy of foot and mouth disease (FMD)...

No Epidemics Despite Bad Weather in China
CHINA - The government's agricultural departments have so far successfully prevented post-disaster animal epidemics.

WHO Head Praises China over Disease Control
CHINA - China's Agriculture Minister and the WHO Director-General met yesterday. They discussed animal health and food safety issues.

China Makes Progress in Disease Control
CHINA - Remarkable achievements have been made in the prevention and control of animal epidemics so far this year, says the Ministry of Agriculture.

FMD Forces Pig Price Fall
CHINA - The outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Guangzhou has seen the price of live pigs fall to about 10 yuan ($1.5) per kilogram.

China Buries FMD Pig Carcasses
CHINA - Rotting carcasses of animals that had died as the result of foot and mouth disease (FMD) animals have been buried t prevent pollution of rivers in suburban Foshan.

China to Focus on Animal Epidemic Control
CHINA - At a high-level meeting on animal disease last week, the Vice Agriculture Minister stressed the need for increased efforts to control African swine fever, A H1N1 flu, and zoonotic diseases...

'Diseased Pork' Being Sold in Some Regions
CHINA - The State Administration of Industry and Commerce on Tuesday night (9 February) issued an urgent notice to inform consumers and local law enforcement officers that "diseased pork" is being sold...

China's Animal Unit to Buy Pig Vaccine Company
CHINA - China Animal Healthcare Ltd said its subsidiary, Shenzhou Pagina-kang Technology Co Ltd has agreed to buy Jianxiang Hemu from its four shareholders for a total of RMB210 million (S$43.44 milli...

China Approves Novel Vaccine PCVD
CHINA - Ingelvac CircoFLEX from Boehringer Ingelheim Vedmedica is the first vaccine to be approved in China against Porcine Circovirus Disease (PCVD).

China Passes First Professional Veterinarians
CHINA - The country's first professional veterinary practitioners have qualified by passing new examinations for the profession.

New Hope for Rotavirus Control
CHINA - Working in mice, researchers from the Northeast Agricultural University have produced results that indicate a promising new method for the control or rotavirus infection.

Chinese Research Wins APVS Award
BEIJING, CHINA - A team of researchers from the China Agricultural University in Beijing have won an award for their evaluation of the performance of the boar taint vaccine Improvac® (Pfizer Animal Health)...

Hainan is China's First Disease-Free Province
CHINA - Hainan has been announced as the first province to pass the national inspection for specific animal epidemic-free zone.

Diseased Meat Shop Closed in Tongzhou
CHINA - A butcher shop selling diseased meat in Daxingzhuang village, Tongzhou district was shut down by local government on Monday following a public tip-off.

Pork 'Safe to Eat' Despite Infection Found in Pigs
CHINA - Health experts have assured consumers that Chinese pork is still safe despite reports of pigs being infected with the deadly A/H1N1 flu.

Outbreak of PRRS in Parts of China Reported
CHINA - China's agriculture ministry has announced that an epidemic of swine disease that killed more than 80,000 pigs in 2007 has emerged in parts of the country.

China Denies Imposing Restrictions on EU Imports
CHINA - China has never placed any restriction on pork imports from the European Union (EU), and its demand for health certificate from the EU imported pork was needed to prevent the spread of A/H1N1 flu,...

New Appointments at Meriden (Guangzhou) Biotech
CHINA - Two new senior technical appointments have been made at Meriden (Guangzhou) Biotech Co Limited.