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28/12/06	On Europe's doorstep, a battle against animal disease Sometime in late 2005 a stealthy invader slipped across one of Turkey's eastern borders and started to move westward toward Europe: a new strain of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a devastating sickness affecting cows, pigs, sheep and goats.
28/12/06	FAO crisis centre experts in South Korea studying risk of avian flu spread A nine-person team from the joint FAO/OIE Crisis Management Centre (CMC) is in the Republic of (South) Korea on a 10-day mission collecting epidemiological data from rural areas south of the capital, Seoul, where three recent outbreaks of avian influenza in domestic poultry occurred.
19/12/06	Agencies agree on plan for food safety, animal and plant health assistance Five international organizations, donors and representatives of beneficiary countries today approved a new medium-term strategy for their joint efforts to help developing countries implement internationally agreed standards for food safety and animal and plant health.
18/12/06	20 percent of Animal Breeds are at Risk of Extinction Of the more than 7 600 breeds in FAO's global database of farm animal genetic resources, 190 have become extinct in the past 15 years and a further 1 500 are considered at risk of extinction.
08/12/06	Indonesia struggles to contain H5N1 bird flu It has been almost ten years now since the H5N1 bird flu virus was first isolated from a goose in China, and people are still dying from the disease while the deadly virus has spread to wild birds and poultry farms across Africa, Asia and Europe.
10/11/06	H5N1 bird flu virus is changing According to a report in last week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the identification of a new H5N1 virus sublineage in poultry, this new virus sublineage, called Fujian virus, appears to have become the dominant strain of the H5N1 avian influenza circulating in parts of Asia.
05/11/06	International agencies advise OIE animal health and welfare fund Five international organizations met for the first time in Paris on 20 October 2006 to advise the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on funding to help developing countries meet international standards for dealing with disease outbreaks and related issues.
25/09/06	APHCA to welcome Mongolia as its 16th member During his recent mission to Mongolia, Dr. Hans-Gerhard Wagner, Secretary of APHCA was informed by the Minister of Agriculture of the Mongolian cabinet's approval to join APHCA.
21/09/06	International Conference on Traditional Dairy Foods The conference will include keynote speeches, symposia, invited lectures, plenary lectures and poster sessions covering the entire spectrum of Traditional Dairy Foods from all parts of the world. (14-17 November 2007, Karnal, India)
06/09/06	Satellites Help Scientists Track Migratory Birds Wearing light solar-powered global positioning system (GPS) satellite transmitters, wild swans from Mongolia are winging their way across Eurasia, while land-bound scientists tracking the birds’ journeys on computers say that these unique studies will shed light on how wild birds may be involved in the spread of avian influenza.
23/08/06	Caucasus, Balkans at high risk for deadly H5N1 virus The deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu, continues to threaten people, animals and economies in a growing number of countries, according to FAO, despite numerous successful efforts in several countries to contain the spread of the virus.
22/08/06	Both endemic and new virus strains to blame for bird flu recurrence in Asia’s poultry Laboratory confirmation points to both old and new isolates of the bird flu virus as sources of recent HPAI outbreaks in Southeast Asia, FAO said today.
10/04/06	Bird flu outbreaks continue in Africa, Asia, Europe and Near East Despite the fact that the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu, has now been confirmed in 45 countries on three continents, threatening human lives as well as livelihoods and depressing poultry prices in many regions, efforts to combat the disease on poultry farms are slowly proving successful on many fronts.
02/03/06	FAO’s first decentralized ECTAD unit established in RAP The Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) has recently been established in the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP). This unit, having Dr. Laurence Gleeson as its Chief (effective 22 February 2006).
28/02/06	Escalating bird flu crisis jeopardizes global poultry trade prospects Recent avian influenza outbreaks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have caused dramatic swings in poultry consumption, increased trade bans and sharp price declines, FAO said today.
22/02/06	Bird flu virus advances in Nigeria The deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus continues to spread in poultry in Nigeria and could cause a regional disaster despite strong control efforts taken by the Nigerian authorities, FAO said today.
17/02/06	Bird flu: concern grows over possible spread in West Africa FAO today expressed growing concern that the bird flu virus H5N1 may spread to other countries in West Africa following the discovery of the virus in Nigeria last week. The effects on a region already facing severe malnutrition would be devastating, the UN agency warned.
18/01/06	Bird flu virus could spill over to Africa and Europe in springtime The avian influenza virus could become entrenched in the Black Sea, Caucasus and Near East regions through trade and movement of people and animals and it could be further spread by migratory birds particularly coming from Africa in the spring, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.
11/01/06	FAO warns bird flu virus could become endemic in Turkey FAO warned today that the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza virus H5N1 could become endemic in Turkey and poses a serious risk to neighbouring countries.

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