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Georgia may Lose Most Pigs to Swine Fever: FAO

Georgia is at risk of losing most of its pig population to African swine fever and the devastating disease could also threaten pigs in neighbouring countries, the UN food agency warned Tuesday . "There is strong evidence that the devastating pig disease African Swine Fever is widely spread ...

Georgia Hit With African Swine Fever: FAO

Georgia has been hit by African swine fever, a devastating pig disease that could also threaten neighbouring countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday. "This is a dramatic development," said Jan Slingenbergh, senior animal health officer at the Rome-based FAO, noting tha...

Bird Flu Crisis To Inflict Tremendous Damage: FAO

Bird flu crisis is likely to last several years inflicting ‘tremendous damage’ to bird population, domestic poultry in particular//, with continuing threat of the possibility of its turning into human pandemic affecting millions, the UN food agency has warned. Giving the new assessment, the F...

Association of Peruvian Anchovy Producers Pursues MSC Certification

...ramme for wild-capture fisheries consistent with the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards and the United Nations fao guidelines for fisheries certification. The MSC has offices in London, England; Seattle, Washington, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; The Hague, ...

USAID Provides $3.7 million to Assist with Global Food Security in Senegal

...ited Nations Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO) to provide regional coordination of food security and agriculture efforts. With this funding, fao will strengthen livelihoods and improve the nutritional status of the most vulnerable households affected by rising food prices. "USAID's assista...

Gaps In Food Safety Systems Must Be Plugged :UN

...t spate of food safety incidents. During the last 12 months, an average of up to 200 food safety incidents per month were investigated by WHO and fao to determine their public health impact. "Food safety is an issue for every country and ultimately every food consumer. All countries can benefi...

Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

... to person. But experts fear that if the H5N1 virus mutates it could become easily transmitted among humans, triggering a global pandemic. The fao experts said efficient veterinary services and improved private/public partnership for better surveillance and control are indispensable. Sinc...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...rm strategy to control the deadly H5N1 strain, the fao said. Though no cases of human infection h...ll-scale comprehensive national control campaign," fao Chief Veterinary Officer Joseph Domenech said in a...ed outbreaks were the other measures suggested the fao official. Bangladesh has about 220 million...

Concern Expressed Over Poor Quality Bird Flu Vaccine Used in Nigeria

...ity and the will to apply them, he said. The fao and the World Organisation for Animal Health warn ... vaccination programmes which have been effective, fao says, but the agency says the programmes require s...accines and applying strict monitoring procedures, fao officials said in a statement after a mission to t...

FAO Says Biofuels Threatening Food Security

...and the poorest, which will import most, will pay an extra 10 percent", the fao report said Thursday. It noted that prices of secondary cereals and...x percent more than 2006, but will barely meet demand, it said. The fao Genetic Resource Commission during their June 11-15 meeting is scheduled to...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

...f a comprehensive, workable strategy. The second meeting was a working meeting, with participants from several government ministries, consultants from fao and UNICEF, and specialists from various international non-governmental organizations and national groups who collaborated to define strategy for movi...

New Bird flu Strain Claims Refuted

...ew variant of the virus, isolated in North China's Shanxi Province and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region at the beginning of this year and reported to fao and OIE. However experiments have shown that the variant is weak in triggering disease in mammals and a new vaccine used in these areas has brough...

Myanmar Declares Herself As A Country Free of Bird flu

...tional donor support to strengthen the surveillance and response system in Myanmar both to confirm and preserve this freedom from bird flu.” The fao has however cautioned that fresh outbreaks of the virus in neighbouring Thailand, Cambodia and Laos since July only go to show as to just how easily t...

Resurgence of Bird Flu in Laos

...(FAO) confirmed an outbreak in a suburb of the capital, Vientiane. The fao said that it is investigating whether the outbreaks in the two countries were related. fao bird flu expert Laurence Gleeson said that it is critical to find out if th...

India to Claim Bird Flu-Free Status Next Month

...and Sri Lanka, attended the first coordinated meet of animal husbandry and health ministers hosted by India and organised by global organisations WHO, fao and OIE. A Delhi Declaration adopted at the meeting said it was decided to develop a common framework under existing regional Asian forums like ...

FAO Prepares Seychelles to Tackle Bird Flu Outbreak

... Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to tackle bird flu pandemic//. The fao organization has given all the necessary help like donating equipment such ... equipments. Seychelles was not initially part of this team but later the fao official Martin Smith who was assigned to Seychelles persuaded to include t...

Fao Declares Humans Spread Avian Influenza Virus

...ne regarding bird flu in future years, but now to control its rapid spread, fao needs $308 million (P16.3 billion) for the global program and for the signi...itting human populations and also its effect on poultry and other animals – fao reports. Thus needs more efforts to eradicate the flu were wild birds had m...

Fresh Outbreak Of Bird Flu In Nigeria

...ht resurge barely a month after it was declared free of the virus. Sources have claimed that the government and the Nigeria Veterinary Council and the fao officials were intensifying their surveillance, while the NVRI was continuing with the task of finding ways to stamp out the deadly disease. The...

Myanmar To Lift Ban On Poultry As Bird Flu Under Control

... will continue monitoring and surveillance in cooperation with experts from fao and others like the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization which agreed with the decision. Ram Chaudhary, the chief technical adviser for fao said that the tough restrictions were no longer necessary as no new outbrea...

Bird flu infection spreads from Asia to Europe

...use for concern over migratory birds. The best thing to do, he says, would be to set up surveillance areas to randomly test wild bird populations. The fao would need US$20-30 million for such a study, he says. Medindia on Avian flu – Further Information: Avian Influenza: Avian influenza (...

WHO Issues Caution Against Bird Flu Epidemic

...d in January 2004 in Thailand and Vietnam. In the strong warning issued by fao of United Nations, it has been pointed out that bird flu will probably rema...lly ducks, and so it may be difficult to contain the spread of the disease. fao advises that instead of killing the poultry population, it is important to ...