Blue-Ear Pig Disease Strikes in Thailand Again
THAILAND - Pig producers expect the present high pork prices to come down over the next six months as new pigs entering the market make up for the present shortfall being blamed on a virus.

Unexpected Increase in PRRS Morbidity & Mortality
THAILAND - An increase in the morbidity/mortality has been observed in the area of Amphur Ban-Ra-Kam (Phitsanulok province) and PRRS is suspected based on clinical signs, the World Organisation for Animal...

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health Sponsors APVS
THAILAND - Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is a diamond sponsor of the APVS 2011 and is honoured to be able to contribute in this way to the development of the Asian swine industry.

PRRS: Unexpected Increase in Morbidity/Mortality
THAILAND - An increase in the morbidity/mortality has been observed in the area of Amphur Ban-Ra-Kam (Phitsanulok province) and PRRS (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome) is suspected based on...

Epidemic Zone Declared After Death of 1,000 Pigs
THAILAND - A mystery disease has killed 1,000 pigs in Phitsanulok's Wang Thong, Bang Rakham, Bang Krathum and Muang districts which have been declared livestock epidemic zones.

Pfizer Opens SE Asian Centre
THAILAND - Pfizer has picked Thailand as its operations hub for animal-health products in Southeast Asia to capitalise on the region’s fast-growing economies.

Thailand's Pigs Now PRRS-Free
THAILAND - Thai authorities have affirmed that blue-ear swine disease, also known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), is not present in pigs in Thailand and say exports of live swine...

Officers in Various Provinces Tackle PRRS
THAILAND - Livestock officers have inspected pig farms in various provinces following reports of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) that has killed a large number of pigs in Nong...

A/H1N1 in Bangkok Pigs No Cause for Alarm
THAILAND - Pig farms in the capital are not at risk from type A (H1N1) influenza, as there are so few swine farmers in the city, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).

A/H1N1 Could Not Spread Further Among Pigs
THAILAND - The A/H1N1 influenza could not spread further to any other pigs after Thailand confirmed yesterday that one pig was infected with the new virus, Permanent-Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry...

Thailand Pig Infected with A/H1N1 but Recovers
THAILAND - A pig from a farm in central Thailand's Saraburi province was found infected with the A/H1N1 influenza, but it has already recovered, the Thai Public Health Ministry said.

LIC Agrotech Holds Workshop on Orego-Stim
THAILAND - LIC Agrotech recently held a workshop entitled Orego-Stim – The Ultimate Solution.

Swine Flu: What Does it Do to Pigs?
THAILAND - The effects of swine influenza have been investigated in a group of piglets. Scientists writing in BioMed Central's open access Virology Journal studied the pathology of the virus,...

Big Dutchman Again Awarded 'Best Exhibitor'
BANGKOK, THAILAND - At VIV Asia 2009 Big Dutchman once again succeeded in transforming several containers of show exhibits into an optically very appealing stand.

Experimantal Trial on Pathogenesis of Thai Isolates
THAILAND - A study of Thai isolates of swine influenza in the latest edition of Virology Journal 2009 found that the H1N1 strain caused more lesions in the lungs than the H3N2 strain.