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2021 is making a good start! Covid-19 vaccination programs in the different countries give promising results. The emerging Covid-19 mutants are worrying and only time will tell how big their impact will be. The EAPHM Board has been and is busy with ongoing and new activities. Data and topics have been chosen for a set of interesting webinars. One of the webinar will deal with loose housing for...

In the framework of drafting and updating the category A list of the Regulation (EU) 2016/429 on transmissible animal diseases (‘Animal Health Law’), EFSA received the mandate from the European Commission to assess the effectiveness of some of the control measures against ASF.

Belgium is allowed to restock the commercial and hobby farms with pigs again in the previously declared ASF zone! With this the elimination of the last restriction on pig keeping in relation to ASF are gone. Of course surveillance will continue but live is back to normal! Again the congratulations to the Team responsible for this achievement and hopefully Germany will be as successful in time to...

2021 is on its way and hopefully in this year the general public will experience the real power of vaccines! The main aim of vaccination is to reduce the pathogen presence and pressure in the environment. Veterinarians know how important “herd” immunity is for this reason. We can only hope that the success of Covid-19 vaccination will lead to a higher percentage of humans willing to receive the...

The suspicion of African swine fever (ASF) in a wild boar carcass found in Potsdam's Gross Glienicke was not confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory. The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, FLI) was able to rule out ASF through extensive, additional examinations of the sent wild boar carcass.