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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Lack of Ebola-free certificate stalls Philippine pork exports
June 23, 2010   Lack of Ebola-free certificate stalls Philippine pork exports   The absence of an Ebola virus-free certificate for Mindanao would stall for another year the resumption of Philippine pork exports to Singapore. "Unlike foot-an ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Philippines upgrades Ebola testing facility
February 18, 2010 Philippines upgrades Ebola testing facility The Philippine Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last week inaugurated the renovation of the Ebola Diagnostic Laboratory (EDL) at ...
Monday, July 13, 2009
Ebola virus growing concern in the Philippines
July 13, 2009 Ebola virus growing concern in the Philippines                           There is growing concern over a type of Ebola virus that has been detected in pigs from the Philippines. Researchers are concerned that there is a possib ...
Monday, March 16, 2009
More Philippine hog farms put under surveillance for ebola reston virus
March 16, 2009 More Philippine hog farms put under surveillance for ebola reston virus                                      At least 30,000 hogs from different farms in Luzon region in the Philippines are under strict surveillance in an att ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Philippine hog group says pork safe amid ebola scare
February 25, 2009 Philippine hog group says pork safe amid ebola scare The Philippines' biggest group of hog farmers declared that pork is still safe for eating amid the scare triggered by the Ebola Reston virus (ERV) in pigs. Except those ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
New case of human ebola reston virus in the Philippines
February 24, 2009 New case of human ebola reston virus in the Philippines Philippine health officials said Tuesday (February 24) that a pig farm worker had become the sixth person to test positive for antibodies to the non-lethal Ebola-Rest ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Massive pig slaughter ordered as ebola virus spreads
February 24, 2009 Massive pig slaughter ordered as ebola virus spreads                                         The Philippine government has ordered a massacre of 6,000 pigs in a hog farm in Bulacan province, north of the country, where the ...
Friday, February 13, 2009
Philippine pork and chicken price spikes following ebola scare
February 13, 2009 Philippine pork and chicken price spikes following ebola scare The Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said the Ebola Reston virus scare has increased the prices of chicken and pork sold in public markets, a ...
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Philippines to send Ebola samples to Australian lab
January 31, 2009 Philippines to send Ebola samples to Australian lab The Philippines will send samples of the Ebola Reston virus to an Australian animal laboratory to observe the effects of the virus on hogs and establish whether hog-to-hog ...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Five Philippine farm workers infected with ebola strain
January 30, 2009 Five Philippine farm workers infected with ebola strain                                    Four more pig farm workers in the Philippines have tested positive for a strain of the Ebola virus that isn't deadly to humans, taki ...
Friday, January 23, 2009
Philippine hog worker tested positive for ebola
January 23, 2009 Philippine hog worker tested positive for ebola   The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) on Friday (January 23) has confirmed that one Filipino farm worker has tested positive for antibodies to the Ebola-Reston virus (ER ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
International experts arrive in Manila to probe ebola outbreak in hogs
January 7, 2008 International experts arrive in Manila to probe ebola outbreak in hogs Health experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organ ...
Friday, January 2, 2009
Brunei warns against Philippine pork amid Ebola outbreak
January 2, 2008 Brunei warns against Philippine pork amid Ebola outbreak Brunei's Ministry of Health and Agriculture Department (MHAD) has issued a precaution to the public, as the number of pigs carrying the Ebola-Reston virus in the Phili ...
Friday, January 2, 2009
Philippine Swine Crisis: Badly needing restructuring, then Ebola hits
If low consumption and high feed costs were not enough, frightening diseases and rising imports makes matters worse.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Phillippines' Calabarzon pig farms free of Ebola virus
December  26, 2008 Phillippines' Calabarzon pig farms free of Ebola virus The Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) has assured that the pig farms in the provinces collectively known as the Calabarzon Region, are free of the Ebola-Resto ...

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