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SALTEX offers you a world of limitless opportunities to discover the latest industry trends and innovations, enhance your education and learn from industry experts over two days at the NEC in Birmingham – for free!
Come and see us!]]> http://bbs.medgmp.com/showthread.php?tid=35 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 01:30:00 +0000 admin]]> http://bbs.medgmp.com/showthread.php?tid=35 According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the farm has 8339 live pigs, with 96 diseases and 47 deaths.
Immediately after the outbreak, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs sent a steering group to the local area. The local government has started the emergency response mechanism as required, and adopted measures such as blockade, culling, harmless treatment, disinfection, etc., to take care of all the sick and culled pigs.
At the same time, all pigs and their products are prohibited from being transferred out of the blockade, and pigs are prohibited from being transported into the blockade. At present, the above epidemic has been effectively taken care of.
To date, more than 60 confirmed ASF outbreaks have been reported in China since August, according to the USDA
. African swine fever reported in China, First reported case in East Asia
ASF is a highly contagious, generalized disease of pigs caused by an Iridovirus of family Asfarviridae that exhibits varying virulence between strains and is very hardy to physical and chemical inactivation. The agent can remain viable for long periods in blood, feces and tissues. It can also multiply in its vectors.
It most commonly appears in the acute form as a hemorrhagic fever. Subacute and chronic forms of the disease also exist. Mortality is usually close to 100 percent and pigs of all ages are affected.
African Swine Fever in Asia: ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’
ASF is considered endemic in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It is now established beyond Africa, in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. In the past, the virus was already detected outside Africa from the 1950s to the 1980s in Europe, the Caribbean and Brazil. The disease was effectively eradicated from outside of Africa with the exception of the Italian island of Sardinia, which remains endemic.
]]> According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the farm has 8339 live pigs, with 96 diseases and 47 deaths.
Immediately after the outbreak, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs sent a steering group to the local area. The local government has started the emergency response mechanism as required, and adopted measures such as blockade, culling, harmless treatment, disinfection, etc., to take care of all the sick and culled pigs.
At the same time, all pigs and their products are prohibited from being transferred out of the blockade, and pigs are prohibited from being transported into the blockade. At present, the above epidemic has been effectively taken care of.
To date, more than 60 confirmed ASF outbreaks have been reported in China since August, according to the USDA
. African swine fever reported in China, First reported case in East Asia
ASF is a highly contagious, generalized disease of pigs caused by an Iridovirus of family Asfarviridae that exhibits varying virulence between strains and is very hardy to physical and chemical inactivation. The agent can remain viable for long periods in blood, feces and tissues. It can also multiply in its vectors.
It most commonly appears in the acute form as a hemorrhagic fever. Subacute and chronic forms of the disease also exist. Mortality is usually close to 100 percent and pigs of all ages are affected.
African Swine Fever in Asia: ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’
ASF is considered endemic in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It is now established beyond Africa, in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. In the past, the virus was already detected outside Africa from the 1950s to the 1980s in Europe, the Caribbean and Brazil. The disease was effectively eradicated from outside of Africa with the exception of the Italian island of Sardinia, which remains endemic.
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poultry
livestock
pet

Building:
Tehran International Permanent Fairground
Address:
2nd floor,, Akbari st., 22 Bahman st., Ashrafi Isfahani, Tehran-Iran
Country
Iran
Type:
Exhibitions
Website
http://www.miladgroup.net]]>  - 

poultry
livestock
pet

Building:
Tehran International Permanent Fairground
Address:
2nd floor,, Akbari st., 22 Bahman st., Ashrafi Isfahani, Tehran-Iran
Country
Iran
Type:
Exhibitions
Website
http://www.miladgroup.net]]> http://bbs.medgmp.com/showthread.php?tid=8 Sat, 01 Sep 2018 01:37:40 +0000 admin]]> http://bbs.medgmp.com/showthread.php?tid=8 Anyone who’s ever looked around the family dinner table at a celebration and wondered at how such a disparate group of people could be related to each other understands—whether they realize it or not—one of the primary difficulties of developing animal crossbreeding programs. No matter if it’s cows or people, individual traits such as height or personality are so varied that it can be difficult to perceive the underlying family resemblances. One way scientists overcome this challenge is by studying large sample sizes. Patterns that might not reveal themselves in a handful of instances become clearer when the lens zooms out to take in thousands of cases. Grandma’s longevity and good health are no guarantee that you won’t get hit by a bus on the way home. But thousands of data points about mortality can help scientists figure out how much of life expectancy is hereditary and how much is due to lifestyle—or to the plain luck of avoiding that bus. Similarly, a cow’s dairy productivity, disease resistance, durability and resilience to drought are all subject to individual variation; it’s only with large sample sizes that the effects of crossbreeding programs become clear.
In the rich countries of the world, experimental breeding programs take advantage of vast ranching operations where a single farmer can sustain thousands of head of cattle. But developing effective systems to monitor and evaluate crossbreeding programs in Africa can be a challenge, for two reasons. First, most smallholder farmers own only a few animals, making it difficult to build up a statistically robust sample size. Second, the animals are often dispersed over wide areas and, in the case of pastoralists and agropastoralists, are mobile, making it difficult to effectively track and record the relevant information.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led African Dairy Genetic Gains (ADGG) project, a focused partnership on dairy cattle farmers in Tanzania and Ethiopia, is determined to overcome these challenges by taking advantage of the recent widespread adoption of mobile phones and by offering a valuable quid pro quo. Farmers who participate in the breeding programs and collect routine data on their cows’ health, growth and productivity receive personalized coaching and advice from livestock outreach specialists via routine visits and SMS messages on their phones.
‘A recent visit to three dairy farms on the outskirts of Arusha, Tanzania, shows how the program is working for farmers. George Nditika is a professional dairyman who in the past decade has grown his herd from 6 to 80 head of cattle. His farm is a hive of barn and shed construction. Nothing goes to waste—even the manure run-off, which is channeled to a thin, deep well where it ferments, releasing methane gas that is captured and piped to fuel the farm stove. The stove heats the water he uses to wash his cows’ udders and keep them healthy. His best cows are a mix of Friesian, Jersey, Ayrshire and a local breed. They produce up to 20 liters of milk per day, most of which he sells to area restaurants and schools. Nditika’s assistants know to input ADGG data and follow carefully the advice they receive in return. When some of his young heifers failed to put on weight, the advice he received via SMS to change up their feed led to a rapid improvement. Nditika has ambitions of owning 200 cows within five years and hopes before long to buy a milking machine.
Violet Kimaro is a young mother and primary school teacher with three cows and two calves in her back lot. She keeps a few pigs in a separate pen. A dozen or more red-and-gold chickens peck freely about the premises. They not only provide eggs, she says, but eat the worms that might infest the cows’ hooves. A cornucopia of fruit trees surrounds the home—mango, banana, orange, guava and avocado. Kimaro’s cows are a primary source of nutrition for the family and a secondary source of income. They produce about 14 liters of milk each per day, which generates about USD100 per month in profit—a valuable supplement to her monthly salary of roughly USD150. Her goal is to eventually own five cows, each producing up to 16 liters per day. Meanwhile, Kimaro is especially grateful to the ADGG program for alerting her to the possibility that one of her cows might be developing mastitis, an inflammation of the udder whose symptoms aren’t always immediately evident.
Mevuko has only been keeping cows for three years. She has two and is hoping to buy a third soon. For now, her cows produce just 10–12 liters per day and nearly all of that is consumed by the family. She and her husband are worried about a small black snake—species unknown—whose bite she’s heard could be fatal to the cows. So with advice from the outreach specialist they’ve begun refurbishing their cow pen, raising it up a step to prevent snakes from slithering in.

The ADGG program is currently reaching more than 12,000 dairy farmers in Ethiopia and Tanzania and is providing  information and support services to 60,000 farmers altogether. The program hopes to reach as many as one million farmers in the next few years. But it’s not just farmers the program aims to reach. ADGG and PAID aim to creating financially sustainable artificial insemination (AI) services and helping them transition to local franchises of partner genetics companies. PAID is specifically determined to build up AI outreach and technician capacity to provide as many as 2.5 million AI services. Ultimately, the goal is to deepen the state of knowledge about which crossbred cows are best suited for the varied needs of farmers throughout the varied landscapes of East Africa.]]> Anyone who’s ever looked around the family dinner table at a celebration and wondered at how such a disparate group of people could be related to each other understands—whether they realize it or not—one of the primary difficulties of developing animal crossbreeding programs. No matter if it’s cows or people, individual traits such as height or personality are so varied that it can be difficult to perceive the underlying family resemblances. One way scientists overcome this challenge is by studying large sample sizes. Patterns that might not reveal themselves in a handful of instances become clearer when the lens zooms out to take in thousands of cases. Grandma’s longevity and good health are no guarantee that you won’t get hit by a bus on the way home. But thousands of data points about mortality can help scientists figure out how much of life expectancy is hereditary and how much is due to lifestyle—or to the plain luck of avoiding that bus. Similarly, a cow’s dairy productivity, disease resistance, durability and resilience to drought are all subject to individual variation; it’s only with large sample sizes that the effects of crossbreeding programs become clear.
In the rich countries of the world, experimental breeding programs take advantage of vast ranching operations where a single farmer can sustain thousands of head of cattle. But developing effective systems to monitor and evaluate crossbreeding programs in Africa can be a challenge, for two reasons. First, most smallholder farmers own only a few animals, making it difficult to build up a statistically robust sample size. Second, the animals are often dispersed over wide areas and, in the case of pastoralists and agropastoralists, are mobile, making it difficult to effectively track and record the relevant information.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led African Dairy Genetic Gains (ADGG) project, a focused partnership on dairy cattle farmers in Tanzania and Ethiopia, is determined to overcome these challenges by taking advantage of the recent widespread adoption of mobile phones and by offering a valuable quid pro quo. Farmers who participate in the breeding programs and collect routine data on their cows’ health, growth and productivity receive personalized coaching and advice from livestock outreach specialists via routine visits and SMS messages on their phones.
‘A recent visit to three dairy farms on the outskirts of Arusha, Tanzania, shows how the program is working for farmers. George Nditika is a professional dairyman who in the past decade has grown his herd from 6 to 80 head of cattle. His farm is a hive of barn and shed construction. Nothing goes to waste—even the manure run-off, which is channeled to a thin, deep well where it ferments, releasing methane gas that is captured and piped to fuel the farm stove. The stove heats the water he uses to wash his cows’ udders and keep them healthy. His best cows are a mix of Friesian, Jersey, Ayrshire and a local breed. They produce up to 20 liters of milk per day, most of which he sells to area restaurants and schools. Nditika’s assistants know to input ADGG data and follow carefully the advice they receive in return. When some of his young heifers failed to put on weight, the advice he received via SMS to change up their feed led to a rapid improvement. Nditika has ambitions of owning 200 cows within five years and hopes before long to buy a milking machine.
Violet Kimaro is a young mother and primary school teacher with three cows and two calves in her back lot. She keeps a few pigs in a separate pen. A dozen or more red-and-gold chickens peck freely about the premises. They not only provide eggs, she says, but eat the worms that might infest the cows’ hooves. A cornucopia of fruit trees surrounds the home—mango, banana, orange, guava and avocado. Kimaro’s cows are a primary source of nutrition for the family and a secondary source of income. They produce about 14 liters of milk each per day, which generates about USD100 per month in profit—a valuable supplement to her monthly salary of roughly USD150. Her goal is to eventually own five cows, each producing up to 16 liters per day. Meanwhile, Kimaro is especially grateful to the ADGG program for alerting her to the possibility that one of her cows might be developing mastitis, an inflammation of the udder whose symptoms aren’t always immediately evident.
Mevuko has only been keeping cows for three years. She has two and is hoping to buy a third soon. For now, her cows produce just 10–12 liters per day and nearly all of that is consumed by the family. She and her husband are worried about a small black snake—species unknown—whose bite she’s heard could be fatal to the cows. So with advice from the outreach specialist they’ve begun refurbishing their cow pen, raising it up a step to prevent snakes from slithering in.

The ADGG program is currently reaching more than 12,000 dairy farmers in Ethiopia and Tanzania and is providing  information and support services to 60,000 farmers altogether. The program hopes to reach as many as one million farmers in the next few years. But it’s not just farmers the program aims to reach. ADGG and PAID aim to creating financially sustainable artificial insemination (AI) services and helping them transition to local franchises of partner genetics companies. PAID is specifically determined to build up AI outreach and technician capacity to provide as many as 2.5 million AI services. Ultimately, the goal is to deepen the state of knowledge about which crossbred cows are best suited for the varied needs of farmers throughout the varied landscapes of East Africa.]]> http://bbs.medgmp.com/showthread.php?tid=7 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 01:03:21 +0000 admin]]> http://bbs.medgmp.com/showthread.php?tid=7 by ROBERT HERRIMAN   August 20, 2018
Since June 28, more than 50 animals (cattle, sheep and equines) spread over 23 distinct zones have died of anthrax in the Hautes-Alpes, according to the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur regional health agency ARS (computer translated).
To date, 13 municipalities have been impacted: Montgardin, La Batie-Neuve, La Rochette, Chorges, Théus, La Freissinouse, Romette, Ancelle, Saint-Léger-les-Mélèzes, Sainte-Eusebe-en-Champsaur, Rambaud, Saint- Etienne-le-Laus and Buissard.
The farms concerned were thus put under surveillance, with the following preventive measures:
antibiotic treatment and / or vaccination of all animals of the farms concerned;
the ban on the exit of these animals from the farms and pastures where they are;
as a precautionary measure, the withdrawal of human consumption from all products likely to be contaminated and the prohibition of the use of private sector water supplies for livestock and people .
The ARS identified 103 people potentially in contact with the disease (mainly breeders, shepherds, staff of the rendering company and people who attended an equestrian center). As a precaution, preventive antibiotic treatment has been prescribed for 54 people and to date no case has been identified in humans.
The last human cases in France date back to 2008.
According to the Merck Veterinary Manual, Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax is most common in wild and domestic animals but can also be seen in humans exposed to tissue from infected animals, contaminated animal products or directly to B anthracis spores under certain conditions.
Depending on the route of infection, host factors, and potentially strain-specific factors, anthrax can have several different clinical presentations. In herbivores, anthrax commonly presents as an acute septicemia with a high fatality rate, often accompanied by hemorrhagic lymphadenitis.
B. anthracis spores can remain infective in soil for many years. During this time, they are a potential source of infection for grazing livestock. Grazing animals may become infected when they ingest sufficient quantities of these spores from the soil. In addition to direct transmission, biting flies may mechanically transmit B. anthracis spores from one animal to another.
People can get anthrax by handling contaminated animal or animal products, consuming undercooked meat of infected animals and more recently, intentional release of spores.
Infectious diseases: Some select ‘pearls’ with Sandra Gompf, MD
China: Human H5N6 avian influenza case reported in Guangxi
Children hard-hit by current Ebola outbreak in DR Congo – UNICEF
Measles in Europe: ‘We are seeing a dramatic increase in infections and extended outbreaks’
American Heart Association Scientific Statement: Chagas disease has spread outside of Latin America
Israel leptospirosis update: 32 cases reported
http://www.medgmp.com/?page_id=1859&id=124]]> by ROBERT HERRIMAN   August 20, 2018
Since June 28, more than 50 animals (cattle, sheep and equines) spread over 23 distinct zones have died of anthrax in the Hautes-Alpes, according to the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur regional health agency ARS (computer translated).
To date, 13 municipalities have been impacted: Montgardin, La Batie-Neuve, La Rochette, Chorges, Théus, La Freissinouse, Romette, Ancelle, Saint-Léger-les-Mélèzes, Sainte-Eusebe-en-Champsaur, Rambaud, Saint- Etienne-le-Laus and Buissard.
The farms concerned were thus put under surveillance, with the following preventive measures:
antibiotic treatment and / or vaccination of all animals of the farms concerned;
the ban on the exit of these animals from the farms and pastures where they are;
as a precautionary measure, the withdrawal of human consumption from all products likely to be contaminated and the prohibition of the use of private sector water supplies for livestock and people .
The ARS identified 103 people potentially in contact with the disease (mainly breeders, shepherds, staff of the rendering company and people who attended an equestrian center). As a precaution, preventive antibiotic treatment has been prescribed for 54 people and to date no case has been identified in humans.
The last human cases in France date back to 2008.
According to the Merck Veterinary Manual, Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax is most common in wild and domestic animals but can also be seen in humans exposed to tissue from infected animals, contaminated animal products or directly to B anthracis spores under certain conditions.
Depending on the route of infection, host factors, and potentially strain-specific factors, anthrax can have several different clinical presentations. In herbivores, anthrax commonly presents as an acute septicemia with a high fatality rate, often accompanied by hemorrhagic lymphadenitis.
B. anthracis spores can remain infective in soil for many years. During this time, they are a potential source of infection for grazing livestock. Grazing animals may become infected when they ingest sufficient quantities of these spores from the soil. In addition to direct transmission, biting flies may mechanically transmit B. anthracis spores from one animal to another.
People can get anthrax by handling contaminated animal or animal products, consuming undercooked meat of infected animals and more recently, intentional release of spores.
Infectious diseases: Some select ‘pearls’ with Sandra Gompf, MD
China: Human H5N6 avian influenza case reported in Guangxi
Children hard-hit by current Ebola outbreak in DR Congo – UNICEF
Measles in Europe: ‘We are seeing a dramatic increase in infections and extended outbreaks’
American Heart Association Scientific Statement: Chagas disease has spread outside of Latin America
Israel leptospirosis update: 32 cases reported
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