Swine fever update

17 August 2000



Swine fever update

• RSPCA concerns over pig backlog (17 August 2000)
  THE RSPCA has expressed concern over the animal welfare crisis building up in East Anglia because of controls aimed at controlling swine fever in pigs.

• Pig farmers fear welfare catastrophe (17 August 2000)
  PIG farmers have called for immediate action to avert a major animal welfare crisis because of restrictions imposed to control swine fever.

• US and Canada monitor UK pigmeat (16 August 2000)
  THE United States and Canada are monitoring imports of English pig products as a precaution against the spread of swine fever to north America.

• What the papers say: swine fever (16 August 2000)
  AS fears grow over the spread of swine fever in the UK, newspapers consider the latest developments in the crisis.

• Fears grow over spread of swine fever (15 August 2000)
  PIG herds from all over the country are being tested for swine fever amid fears that the disease has spread beyond East Anglia.

• MAFF information could be better (15 August 2000)
  GOVERNMENT communications since the outbreak of swine fever in East Anglia could have been better, a junior agriculture minister has admitted.

• Brussels bans English pig exports (14 August 2000)
  BRUSSELS has imposed an immediate ban on exports of all live pigs and boar semen from England in response to the outbreak of classical swine fever.

• Malton Foods lifts ban on buying pigs (14 August 2000)
  MALTON Foods, the countrys biggest pig processor, claims to have lifted its blanket ban on buying pigs from farmers in swine fever-hit East Anglia.

• Swine fever fallout may hit 1000 farms (14 August 2000)
  ABOUT 1000 farmers could be left with virtually worthless pigs as a result of the classical swine fever outbreak in East Anglia, an industry expert has claimed.

• Malton refuses East Anglian pigs (11 August 2000)
  THE UKs leading pigmeat processor is refusing to take any pigs from East Anglia following the outbreak the classical swine fever (CSF) in the region.

• Young couple face pig cull misery (11 August 2000)
  A YOUNG couple who have worked for seven years to build up their pig breeding business face heavy losses following the first outbreak of swine fever in the UK for 14 years.

• Swine fever cull on six new farms (11 August 2000)
  MAFF has ordered the slaughter of all pigs on six nursery units in a bid to control the spread of classical swine fever (CSF) in East Anglia.

• Swine fever found on two more farms (10 August 2000)
  CLASSICAL swine fever (CSF) has been confirmed on two further farms, one in Essex and one in Norfolk.

• Swine fever outbreak confirmed (09 August 2000)
  AN outbreak of highly contagious pig disease classical swine fever (CSF) has been confirmed in Suffolk.