Veterinary Services' Press Releases

Press releases on APHIS programs are prepared by Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) writers within APHIS and are issued to the media nationally by the Department and regionally or to specialized audiences by APHIS.

The following VS releases have been issued over the past year. All APHIS news releases can be found on the APHIS web site (www.aphis.usda.gov) Older releases are archived there as well.

2003

February

• USDA Announces Availability of Environmental Assessment for Licensing of Brucella Abortus Vaccine
• USDA Proposes to Resume Beef Imports From Uruguay

January

• BSE Prevention Action Steps

2002

• National Poultry Improvement Plan Meeting
• Britain's Disease Status
• HHS, USDA Establish New Regulations for Use of Select Biological Agents
• USDA Seeks Comment on Horse Import Regulations

• USDA Proposes Rule to Further Enhance Surveillance Capabilities
• USDA Seeks Comments on Exotic Newcastle Disease Regulations
• USDA Plans Public Meeting on Veterinary Biologics
• USDA Amends Brucellosis Regulations for Rodeo Bulls
• USDA Issues Permit for Chronic Wasting Disease Antigen Test Kit

• USDA Proposes to Declare Several Mexican States Free of
  Exotic Newcastle Disease
• Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health Announce Catfish
  2003 Study

• USDA Proposed To Classify Four Mexican States Classical
  Swine Fever Free
• Change in Exotic Newcastle Disease Status of Denmark
• Travelers Face Higher Civil Penalties for Agricultural Violations
• USDA Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and
  Poultry Diseases to Meet

• USDA Extends Comment Period on Proposed Rule Amending Cargo Inspection Regulations
• USDA Announces Comments on International Sanitary and
  Phytosanitary Standard-Setting Activities
• USDA Proposes Revising Regulations for the Importation of Bees
• USDA Allows Microchip Implants in Traveling Pet Birds
• APHIS Provides Indemnity for Virginia Poultry Producers
• USDA Extends Comment Period on Bovine Tuberculosis Regulations
• USDA to Require Tuberculosis Testing for Cattle from Manitoba,
  Canada

• Israel's BSE Status
• FMD Comments
• Greece FMD Status

• CWD Plan to Congress
• Bovine TB Amended

• USDA Changes Foot-and-Mouth Disease Status of Estonia
• USDA AND DOI Announce Formation of Joint Chronic Wasting Disease Working Group
• Revised Risk Analysis on Classical Swine Fever from Europe
• National Poultry Improvement Plan Meeting
• FMD Indemnity

• DeHaven Named Veterinary Services Deputy Administrator
• Testing to Continue on Imported Sheep Confiscated Last Year

• USDA Issues License for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccine for Cats
• USDA Proposes to Change Foot-and-Mouth Disease Status of Greece
• USDA Extends Some Animal-Origin Health Certificates Beyond 30 Days
• USDA Issues Permit for Distribution and Sale of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus Vaccine

• Administration Continues to Strengthen BSE Protection Systems
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Selects Director of National Veterinary Sevices Laboratories
• USDA Announces Changes to National Poultry Improvement Plan
• Japan Reopens Market To U.S. Poultry
• Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman Regarding The GAO Report on BSE
• Administration Continues to Strengthen BSE Protection Systems
• Chronic Wasting Disease

• BSE Status Change
• FMD Change in Estonia
• Cattle Importation
• Microchip Implants in Pets
• FMD Restrictions Lifted
• Bovine TB Kit Issued

2001

• Swine Identification
• Infectious Salmon Anemia
• Florida Brucellosis Free
• Horses to Slaughter
• Bison Assessment
• BSE Czech Republic
• Biologics Meeting

• Port Veterinarians
• Horses from Iceland
• FMD Restrictions Eased

• Animal Disease Grants

• CWD Program
• BSE in Japan
• Indemnity Paid

• Oklahoma Brucellosis Free
• New Scrapie UMR
• AR Aquaculture Meeting
• Japan's Animal Disease Status
• Scrapie Control Standards
• Animal Disease Hearing
• WNV License Issued

• VS User Fees
• Aquaculture Public Meetings
• Changes to NPIP
• Tortoise Rules

• Scrapie Comments
• FL Brucellosis Free
• Animal Disease Funding
• Beef from Argentina
• BSE Risk

• Aquaculture Public Meeting

• OK Brucellosis Free
• Comments on Exemptions
• New Scrapie UMR
• Emergency Grant Program
• Veneman Speaks on FMD
• Testing for Imported Cattle
• Dog Definition Withdrawn
• Horse Testing Exemption

• North Carolina FMD Update
• No FMD in North Carolina
• Media Inquiries on FMD
• USDA Vigilant Against FMD
• Sheep from Second Vermont Farm
• Veterinary Biologics Meeting
• Vermont Sheep Removed
• Additional Measures Against FMD
• Biological Product Meeting
• Salmonid Eggs to Chile

• Brazilian Beef Imports
• Disease Status of S. Africa
• Brazilian Beef

• Brucellosis to Zero
• Dave Pyburn Appointment
• Public Aquaculture Meeting