Aussie Pork producers in court challenge over quarantine protocols for pig meat
AUSTRALIA - The pork industry's national representative body, Australian Pork Limited (APL) has announced today that it will launch a High Court challenge of the Government's new quarantine protocols for pigmeat.

PMWS Pig Research Boost For NI
NORTHERN IRELAND - Farming Life has learnt that Northern Ireland's leading position in researching the link between PCV2 (Porcine CircoVirus 2) and the development of PMWS (Post-weaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome) is to be further enhanced in...

Pig meat ban attempt fails
AUSTRALIA - Attempts by pork producers to stop the importation of pig meat from countries affected by Post-Weaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) have failed. The full bench of the Federal Court has upheld an appeal by the Director of...

Biosecurity Australia must do better: agency boss
AUSTRALIA - Biosecurity Australia (BA), the agency responsible for import protocols, admits it will take time and hard work to regain the confidence of rural Australia. Farmers are angry over the approval of beef imports from Brazil, where there...

Pork producers clash with quarantine watchdog
AUSTRALIA - After months of building tension, a row boiled over this morning between pork producers and Australia's quarantine watchdog. Earlier this year producers won a legal battle against Biosecurity Australia over its decision to recommend...

An International Conference on Animal Circoviruses in Belfast, September 2005 in partnership with Merial
NORTHERN IRELAND - An International Conference on "Animal Circoviruses and Associated Diseases" will take place in Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) from 11th - 13th September 2005. The event is being organised for the European Society of...

NSW piggery free of PMWS disease
AUSTRALIA - Veterinary authorities have confirmed a New South Wales piggery is free of the post weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) disease. But investigations into a suspected case of PMWS in South Australia are continuing. The New...

PMWS and PDNS in the UK
UK - Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) Quarterly Surveillance report on PMWS and PDNS from January - March 2005

Aussie Pig group happy with PMWS probe
AUSTRALIA - The Murray-Mallee Pig Producers Group says it is pleased with the way an investigation is being handled into a potential outbreak of a fatal pig disease in a South Australian piggery. The site has been quarantined while tests are undertaken...

Pig farmers may sue over PMWS disease fears
AUSTRALIA - Pig farmers are threatening to sue the federal government if tests confirm cases of an untreatable disease that could devastate Australia's pork industry. Authorities are investigating two possible cases of post-weaning multisystemic...

OIE Pig Health News for the week
EU - Report by the OIE on Pig Disease investigations in Australia, Aujeszky's Disease in Bolivia and Classical Swine Fever in Nicaragua.

Test results to shed light on PMWS in Australia
AUSTRALIA - Test results expected in the next two days will determine whether the pig disease, post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), has entered Australia. PMWS has not been seen in Australia before, but post-mortem test results...

PMWS disease scare for Australian pork industry
AUSTRALIA - The Department of Agriculture is conducting investigations into two suspected cases of the pig disease post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome or PMWS. Australia has never had the disease, but authorities are suspicious of two...

PMWS Fears in Oz
A potentially devastating piglet disease could have reached Australia for the first time, authorities said today. The Department of Agriculture is investigating two suspected cases of the post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) in South...

New Zealand supports Australian pork industry's case against PMWS
NEW ZEALAND - The New Zealand Pork Industry Board (NZPIB) supported its Australian counterpart in its bid to ban pig meat imports from PMWS-affected countries.

Despite Legal Challenge Canadian Pork Continues to Move Into Australia
CANADA - Farm-Scape: Episode 1848. Farm-Scape is a Wonderworks Canada production and is distributed courtesy of Manitoba Pork Council and Sask Pork.

Depopulation Unrealistic Option for PMWS Control
CANADA - Farm-Scape: Episode 1847. Farm-Scape is a Wonderworks Canada production and is distributed courtesy of Manitoba Pork Council and Sask Pork.

Good Management Best Defense Against PMWS
CANADA - Farm-Scape: Episode 1846. Farm-Scape is a Wonderworks Canada production and is distributed courtesy of Manitoba Pork Council and Sask Pork.

Study reveals factors in spread of pig disease
Poor farm biosecurity helped in the spread of pig wasting disease PMWS, a new study has claimed. The British Pig Executive-funded research, carried out by the University of Warwick, found that it took just three years for the disease to become endemic...

Northern Ireland to lead European PMWS project
UK - A research project led by Queen’s University, Belfast, is to investigate porcine cirovirus diseases and seek a cure.