Translation of "Pneumonie contagieuse des porcins " (French → English) :

Since the mid 1990s there has been a succession of food and animal disease scares in the EU including mad cow disease (BSE), Avian Flu, Foot and Mouth Disease, Swine fever, Salmonella, Viral Pneumonia, Infectious Salmon Anaemia etc.

21. Wishes to support EU policy to combat contagious animal diseases such as, inter alia, foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever and avian flu; has decided to enter funding dedicated to enhancing European-level research on marker vaccines and discriminatory tests;

9. Calls on the Commission to earmark sufficient resources to combat infectious animal diseases, such as classic swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), on the basis of the conclusions of the European Parliament's temporary committee on foot-and-mouth disease, advocating a foot-and-mouth disease policy in which vaccination plays a major role; in this context adequate resources should swiftly be earmarked for further research into marker vaccines and discriminatory tests, for keeping sufficient vaccines in stock and for cooperation between laboratories;

FMD is an extremely contagious viral disease which affects ruminants and porcine animals, both domesticated and wild.

(e) are kept in semen collection centres which must not be situated in a restricted area designated under the provisions of the Community legislation relating to contagious diseases in domestic pigs;

foot-and-mouth disease, swine fever, contagious swine paralysis, bovine brucellosis, swine brucellosis or anthrax, or from an area in which the measures referred to under (ii) are applied, it being understood that: (i) if all the animals of species susceptible to the disease have not been slaughtered and the premises disinfected, the period of prohibition must be at least thirty days from the date of the last recorded case in the case of foot-and-mouth disease, at least forty days in the case of swine fever or contagious swine paralys ...[+++]is, at least six weeks in the case of bovine or swine brucellosis and at least fifteen days in the case of anthrax;