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Sustainable animal production The challenges and potential developments for professional farming. Edited by: A. Aland and F. Madec 2009, 496 pages, hardback This book addresses the major issues related to animal health and welfare maintenance in relation to their environment, as well as housing emissions and waste management. Experiments, reviews and expert opinions and scenarios for the future are presented. Each of the chapters has been written by scientists with international reputations. Download table of contents of the book 'Sustainable animal production'.
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Prof Dr Martin Tielen awarded in Wroclaw (Poland)

Inaugaural speech at the ceremony of the honorary professorship in Wroclaw
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4th Joint Master of Veterinary Public Health (MVPH) Course October 2009 – September 2011

ISAH looks for Co-operation with International Partners
Opening speech to the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Association for Animal Husbandry, Xian, China, 17 May 2008

The European College of Veterinary Public Health (ECVPH) Conference on 4-5 December 2008, in Thessaloniki, Greece was a successful event.
The meeting "Responding to Veterinary Public Health Challenges: Communication and education", hosted presentations by the best specialists in Europe. There was also a and poster section. To be noticed in particular ; the poster entitled: "Validation of a climate risk model for Culicoides imicola in Europe - using entomological data from Catalonia (North - Eastern Spain)" by Picado A., Pages N., Alba A., Napp S., Sartro V., Casal J., DCVB unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The poster got the premium of the conference. The next General ECVPH Meeting and Conference 2009 October 8-9, 2009, will be help in Leipzig, Germany ECVPH News at: http://www.ecvph.org/index.aspx

Future Courses on VPH: Master of Veterinary Public Health Course on Disease Outbreak Management 2009, Faculty of Life Science, University of Copenhagen. More info: http://www.life.ku.dk/MVPH.aspx or write to Jens Frederik Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Head of the Master of Veterinary PublicHealth Program

Precautions regarding TSE - Scrapie, milk small ruminants - humans -EFSA Report :
Human and animal exposure risk related to Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) from milk and milk products derived from small ruminants. The EFSA Panel concluded that the use of milk and milk products from a flock with Classical scrapie may carry a TSE exposure risk for humans and animals. Furthermore, the use of milk and milk products from the general small ruminant population may carry a TSE exposure risk for humans and animals due to the presence of undetected affected flocks in that population.

Ebola-Reston virus strain in swine.
First detection of Ebola-Reston virus in pigs 23-12-2008 FAO/OIE/WHO offer assistance to the Philippines. Further tests are required to learn more about the transmission and virulence of the virus. Manila/Roma, 23 December 2008 - Following the detection of the Ebola-Reston virus in pigs in the Philippines, FAO, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that the government of the Philippines has requested the three agencies send an expert mission to work with human and animal health experts in the Philippines to further investigate the situation. An increase in pig mortality on swine farms in the provinces of Nueva Ecija and Bulacan in 2007 and 2008 prompted the Government of the Philippines to initiate laboratory investigations. Samples taken from ill pigs in May, June and September 2008 were sent to international reference laboratories which confirmed in late October that the pigs were infected with a highly virulent strain of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) as well as the Ebola-Reston virus. www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/9025/icode/

EFSA Report
The European Food Safety Autority (EFSA) in connection with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has produced in January 2009, a report entitled : "the community summary report on trends and sources of zoonoses and zoonotic agents in the EU in 2007. The EFSA Journal, 2009, 223. www.efsa.europa.eu