Swine Dewormer Receives Positive Opinion in EU
NETHERLANDS - Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the USA and Canada) yesterday announced that it has received positive opinion from the CVMP in the European Union for PANACUR® AquaSol...

Reducing Antibiotic Use Will Not Stop MRSA
NETHERLANDS - The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium, which is resistant to antibiotics, has spread rapidly in the past few years on pig farms. Extensive use of antibiotics...

Merck Breaks Ground for Vaccine Plant Expansion
NETHERLANDS - Merck Animal Health, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, has announced that it has embarked on the expansion of a vaccine manufacturing unit at its Biosciences Center...

ISPAH: Porcilis PCV Vaccination Compliance
NETHERLANDS - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has introduced BacuCheck™, a simple ELISA test for confirmation of vaccination status with PORCILIS® PCV of piglets against porcine circovirus type...

Improved Progressive Atrophic Rhinitis Vaccine
NETHERLANDS - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announced has that it is introducing PORCILIS® AR-T DF, an inactivated vaccine against progressive atrophic rhinitis in piglets with a new adjuvant...

Piglet Protection Confirmed with Porcilis PCV
NETHERLANDS - A new field study confirms the the protection of piglets against porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVD) by vaccination with Porcilis PCV from Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health...

Dutch Cut Antibiotic Use But Still Way off Target
NETHERLANDS - Antibiotic prescriptions in Dutch livestock farming went down by 12 per cent last year, reported the veterinary medicine producer organization, FIDIN – but is it enough?

GD Organises Ring Trial for PRRSV
NETHERLANDS - GD Animal Health Service Deventer is organising a proficiency testing scheme (Ring Trials) for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) antibody detection in serum.

Dutch Aim to Cut Antibiotic Use by Half
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch industry intends to put new measures in place that will help it meet a target of cutting antibiotic use in meat production by a half, according to a report by VION, the Dutch meat...

ISPAH Expands Vaccine Manufacturing Facility
NETHERLANDS - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health (ISPAH) has announced that it has opened a specialized filling and freeze-drying unit for veterinary vaccines at its Biosciences Center in Boxmeer....

Water Quality Continues to Improve
NETHERLANDS - Water quality continues to improve, according to a study by GD Deventer but problems remain.

Efficacy of Simultaneous Use of PCV, Mycoplasma Vaccines
NETHERLANDS - Simultaneous (mixed) use of existing swine vaccines against porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M.hyo) from Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health in swine...

In Vitro Test Shows Gut Flora Changes in Piglets
NETHERLANDS - A researcher working at Wageningen University has noted significant changes in the gut microflora of piglets around weaning.

GD Has Developed ELISA for Haemophilus
NETHERLANDS - GD Animal Health Service Deventer has developed an ELISA test for Haemophilus parasuis.

Decline in Use of Antibiotics on Livestock
NETHERLANDS - The annual MARAN report, published in early April, indicates that the use of antibiotics on farm animals in the Netherlands decreased in 2008 for the first time after several years of increasing...

Intervet/Schering-Plough Opens New Vaccine Plant
NETHERLANDS - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces that it will open today a state-of-the-art production center for veterinary vaccines against bacterial infections.

GD Organises Ring Test for PRRSV
NETHERLANDS - GD Animal Health Service is organising a proficiency testing scheme (Ring Trials) for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) antibody detection in serum.

ERC Boost for Research on Genomics, Probiotics
NETHERLANDS - Two researchers at Wageningen University have received substantial research grants from the European Research Council (ERC).

Single-Shot Schedule for Porcilis PCV Approved
NETHERLANDS - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health today announces that it has received marketing authorisation from the European Commission on 12 January 2010 for a single-shot vaccination schedule...

Study Shows Rats Involved in Spreading MRSA
NETHERLANDS - Rats might play a role in the spread and persistence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcous aureus (MRSA) on pig farms, according to research from the Centre for Infectious Disease...

Pigs Play a Role in Spread of Hepatitis E
NETHERLANDS - Pigs play a role in the exposure process of humans to Hepatitis E virus (HEV), a Dutch scientist has recently revealed.

Warning over H1N1 Risk in Big Pig Farms
NETHERLANDS - Supersized pig farms may be a source of H1N1 flu, four Dutch village doctors in Limburg province have said. Protests have been held against the planned building of large pig- and chicken-rearing...

Hepatitis E Virus Transmitted in Urine and Meat
THE NETHERLANDS - From studying hepatitis E infection in pigs after contact-infection and intravenous inoculation, Martijn Bouwknegt from National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and co-workers...

Transmission of Hepatitis E from Pigs to Humans
THE NETHERLANDS - Researchers studied the course of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in pigs by direct contact and inoculation. They identified urine and meat as possible sources for pig-to-pig and pig-to-human...