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1. Brucellosis Found in Sublette County Herd [WY]
MyBighornBasin.com
December 10, 2015
Wyoming State Veterinarian Dr. Jim Logan has been notified that cultures are positive for field strain Brucella abortus (Brucellosis) on cows from one Sublette County cattle herd. Results were received Wednesday (Dec. 9) from the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory (WSVL) in Laramie.
Logan, with concurrence of USDA-APHIS, has designated the herd from which the reactor cows originated as "Brucellosis affected" as of Wednesday.
Cattle from the Sublette County herd, located within Wyoming's Designated Surveillance Area (DSA), were positive to blood tests at the WSVL and the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa. Specified cattle from the DSA are required to be tested within 30 days prior to change of ownership or movement from counties within the DSA. The herd was quarantined on November 19 when preliminary tests were suspicious for Brucellosis. The quarantine will remain in effect until the herd has undergone three consecutive, negative, whole-herd tests after any reactors have been removed from the herd.
Whole-herd testing was conducted on the "affected" herd on December 3 and 4, and additional reactor animals were identified. There are five contact herds also under quarantine for herd testing. The contact herds will be released from quarantine if their herd tests are negative.
The testing is being conducted as a cooperative effort between herd owners, Wyoming Livestock Board (WLSB) personnel, and private veterinary practitioners. Epidemiologic interviews with herd owners are ongoing and quarantine herd plans will be developed with each herd owner associated with the case. Epidemiologic tracing will continue in the upcoming weeks by WLSB and APHIS personnel.
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2. FDA Annual Summary Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed in 2014 for Use in Food-Producing Animals
FDA Ctr. for Veterinary Medicine Update
December 10, 2015
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today published its annual report* summarizing sales and distribution data for antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals. The report shows increases in antimicrobial sales and distribution from calendar year 2013 to 2014: an increase of four percent for all antimicrobials and an increase of three percent for antimicrobial classes considered medically important in human medicine.
[ * See: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM476258.pdf ]
This summary report reflects sales and distribution information for 2014, the year after the FDA's announcement of its judicious use strategy for antibiotics that are important in human medicine and are also used in feed or water of food-producing animals. The FDA's Guidance for Industry #213 specifies a timeframe of three years, until December 2016, which is the date by which drug sponsors have voluntarily agreed to make label changes to the affected products to remove production indications (growth promotion and feed efficiency) and move the products from over-the-counter availablility to veterinary feed directive or prescription status in order to ensure the remaining therapeutic uses for the treatment, control or prevention of a specifically identified disease will be under veterinary oversight. To date, three applications have been converted from over-the-counter to prescription dispensing status; production indications have been withdrawn from one application; and 32 affected applications have been completely withdrawn. The FDA expects that drug sponsors will complete the remaining changes before January 2017.
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3. Poultry will begin flocking in Yoder again [KS]
By Kathy Hanks
The Hutchinson News
December 9, 2015
YODER - Following the Kansas Department of Agriculture's announcement this month that it has lifted the ban placed on poultry exhibitions and other events where birds are gathered or co-mingled, David Keim got busy making plans.
Keim, an Amish farmer, once again will host the monthly poultry auction. Fowl had been banned since June when Secretary of Agriculture Jackie McClaskey signed an order in an effort to prevent the spread of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza and protect poultry health in Kansas.
That order banned the feathered friends movement to events where co-mingling occurs, including fairs, swap meets and auctions.
Once Keim received word the ban was lifted, he scheduled a poultry auction for 1 p.m., Jan.1. From then on the auction will be 4 p.m. of the last Friday of the month beginning Jan. 29.
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4. New global framework to eliminate rabies
World Health Organization News release
December 10, 2015
GENEVA - A new framework to eliminate human rabies and save tens of thousands of lives each year has been launched today by WHO, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Alliance for the Control of Rabies (GARC).
The framework calls for 3 key actions - making human vaccines and antibodies affordable, ensuring people who get bitten receive prompt treatment, and mass dog vaccinations to tackle the disease at its source.
"Rabies is 100% preventable through vaccination and timely immunization after exposure, but access to post-bite treatment is expensive and is not affordable in many Asian and African countries. If we follow this more comprehensive approach, we can consign rabies to the history books," says WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan.
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5. New animal cruelty claims against a NC poultry farm
By Jon Camp
ABC13.com
December 10, 2015
RALEIGH -- There are new allegations of animal abuse against a North Carolina chicken farm. The animal rights group, Mercy for Animals, released new undercover video it recorded at Deese Farms in Richmond County. Deese Farm is a Perdue Chicken contract farm.
As a result of the video, one worker was arrested and charged with four counts of animal cruelty. The charges are felonies and each carries up to two years in prison.
The director of Mercy for Animals says what the video shows is consistent with what they've found in other poultry investigations of Perdue Farms in North Carolina.
A new law that takes effect in January will make it illegal to film undercover videos like the one Mercy for Animals released today.
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6. Dairy Farm Shut Down Over Antibiotic Misuse [edited]
By Pamela Baker
Courthouse News Service
December 10, 2015
BURLINGTON, Vt. (CN) - A Vermont dairy farm has settled charges that it has a "long history" of selling livestock for slaughter with unsafe levels of drug residue in their tissue.
At 16 pages, the U.S. government's complaint paints Correia Family Farms as a repeat offender when it comes to treating its cows with off-label antibiotics that the Food and Drug Administration has not approved.
The FDA inspected the farm in 2014 after testing by the U.S. Department of Agriculture detected penicillin residue in the kidney tissue of two dairy cows sold for consumption.
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