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Weekly Overview: Romania, Moldova at Risk of African Swine Fever Spread

2016-07-26 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

GLOBAL - Romania and Moldova are now at high risk of African Swine Fever (ASF) due to the spreading of the disease through southern and western Ukraine, said the Russian veterinary authorities.

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Health officials race to prevent Congo yellow fever disaster

2016-07-01 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: It is the stuff of a disaster movie: an outbreak of yellow fever in Congo's capital city, full of unvaccinated people mostly huddled together in slums with too few drains and the kind of sticky, fetid climate that mosquitoes love. Kinshasa's 12 million people - twice as many as there are doses of yellow fever vaccine anywhere in the world - are largely unprotected against this sometimes deadly but easily preventable illness, which has killed at least 353 in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbour...

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Webinar on the African Swine Fever Regional Strategy for Africa

2016-06-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

AFRICA - African swine fever (ASF) is reported regularly in almost half of African countries and incursions have occurred in several previously unaffected countries during the past decade.

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