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.

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

PMWS and PDNS in the UK
UK - Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) Quarterly Surveillance report on PMWS and PDNS from July – September 2004

PMWS and PDNS in the UK
UK - Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) Quarterly Surveillance report on PMWS and PDNS from April - June 2004

NZ Pig PMWS disease scare over
NEW ZEALAND - Taranaki has been officially cleared of the pig disease post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS).

Is our PMWS research looking at the wrong bug?
UK - Epidemiological studies in Britain to try and understand the PMWS/PDNS pattern of spread, and risk factors, have been hampered by the paucity of farms that are free of disease.

Pig disease spread may not be as bad as first thought
NEW ZEALAND - The incidence of the outbreak of post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) in New Zealand piggeries may not be as bad as first thought.

New PMWS study
UK - The true proportion of farms with PMWS is being estimated in a new on-farm study that identifies links between current management practices, serology and PMWS

CDC Watching for Next Worrisome Outbreak
ATLANTA - SARS. West Nile. HIV. Bird flu. Once-obscure and unknown diseases have caused some of the most worrisome outbreaks in recent years, and health officials can only guess what disease will strike next.

Farmers urge caution over strategy to curb PMWS
NEW ZEALAND - Pig farmers are urging pork industry bosses to think twice before trying an expensive and unproven strategy to combat a disease threatening the New Zealand pig farming industry.

PMWS strikes 25 piggeries in New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND - Twenty-five piggeries between Whangarei and Taranaki have been confirmed or provisionally confirmed as having a serious pig disease. More than half of the farms with post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome – which kills young pigs –...

PMWS mortality increases energy bills
UK - Even though it offers an 80 percent discount on the climate change levy, membership of the pig sector's climate change discount scheme has tumbled.

Moves to protect the national piggery
AUSTRALIA - Australia's A$1 billion pork industry, under siege from rising imports, falling prices and quarantine fears, will join a Federal Government group to thrash out a plan to secure its future. The formation of a new joint industry-government...

Expert backs pork quarantine concerns
AUSTRALIA - An international animal health expert has backed pork producers' concerns about new quarantine standards for imported pig meat. The changes clear the way for up to 15 countries to export pig meat to Australia as long as they meet strict...

New Zealand MP alleges PMWS-MBM link
NEW ZEALAND - An MP suggests a link between Post-Weaning Multi-System Wasting Disease and Meat and Bonemeal.

Pig Disease Confirmed
NEW ZEALAND - Tests have confirmed pigs on three North Island farms are affected by post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome.