updated Mon. March 4, 2019
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Duluth News Tribune
April 21, 2018
PAUL—Minnesota livestock regulators are not doing all they could to protect deer and elk from disease, a state audit shows. ... "The board has not established clear expectations for deer and elk farm inventories, nor has it systematically analyzed compliance with state laws requiring chronic wasting disease.
Daily Commercial
April 21, 2018
Skill-a-thon is a practical test of a member's animal knowledge. This year the skill-a-thon centered on animal health and disease. Kids learned about the responsibility they have to provide for the well-being of their project animal, identified different disease threats and explored treatments and medicationsÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
April 21, 2018
The idea would be to substantially reduce the number of bucks, which are the main carriers of the disease, in hopes of reducing the spread of CWD, an always fatal neurological disease that afflicts deer, elk, caribou and moose. There are no known risks to livestock or humans. The changes are some of theÃÂ ...
NJ.com
April 21, 2018
Although the ticks are known to carry diseases, such as spotted fever rickettsioses in other parts of the world, tests performed on the ticks and the farm animals were negative for diseases. Local, state and federal animal health and wildlife officials, as well as Rutgers University - Center for Vector Biology, areÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
April 20, 2018
A disease that kills millions of pigs a year may soon meet its match — if two federal agencies can agree on the idea. ... On the other: Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, pushing for faster approvals of a wide range of biotechnology that could block animal diseases and help cows produce more milk, amongÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 20, 2018
At the moment we do not know if this disease in camels can cross the the human species barrier. More work and surveillance is needed”. Surveillance of animal populations for prion diseases has been a major concern of health security officials around the world ever since the BSE was first identified in UKÃÂ ...
Capital Press
April 18, 2018
The bill provides first-year mandatory funding of $150 million for the vaccine bank, $70 million in block grants to states for disease prevention and $30 million for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network for diagnostic support. But the bill doesn't guarantee funding for the bank during the rest of theÃÂ ...
National Geographic
April 11, 2018
For starters, it's difficult to pinpoint if the cubs actually had white muscle disease, since this may be the first recorded case observed in lions. How did the lions contract it, if this condition is normally only seen in domesticated livestock? And if the disease ever showed up again in Sabi Sands, how should it beÃÂ ...
AgWeb
April 4, 2018
In addition to animal-welfare and performance impacts, flies, ticks and other external parasites transmit disease such as pinkeye and anaplasmosis. ... producers can benefit by working with their veterinarians to focus more on parasite control and less on medicated feeds for preventing those diseases.
Hivisasa
March 30, 2018
The County Government of Nakuru has announced extension of vaccination of livestock against various diseases to Subukia sub-county as from next week. Agriculture CEC Dr. Immaculate Maina made the announcement on Wednesday while noting that the vaccination campaign against foot and mouth disease in RongaiÃÂ ...
New Zealand Herald
March 29, 2018
The serious dairy and beef cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis could have entered New Zealand through seven potential pathways, one of which is imported veterinary medicines and biological products, says biosecurity watchdog, the Ministry for Primary Industries. The ministry last night released threeÃÂ ...
Feedstuffs
March 29, 2018
This course introduces key concepts related to the response for a livestock or poultry disease emergency. It highlights the actions needed to detect, contain and control these diseases to better prepare responders for their tasks during the response,” Dr. Glenda Dvorak, course instructor and CFSPHÃÂ ...
Genetic Literacy Project
March 29, 2018
We know that healthy, agroecological, farming systems support healthy animals and plants that are then, by and large, resilient to disease. The solution for a sick animal is not to edit genes, because this does not address the cause of the problem and only makes it worse, as the ill health will only find aÃÂ ...
AgWeb
March 28, 2018
Iowa State University researchers have completed testing of a key component of a new concept for disposing of animal carcasses following a disease outbreak. The research someday may help producers facing animal disease emergencies, such as in 2015 when avian influenza resulted in disposal ofÃÂ ...
Timaru Herald
March 28, 2018
EDITORIAL: Seen in context, it's good news that more than 22,000 cattle on 22 farms from Canterbury to Southland infected with the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis are to be culled. While it is obviously a scenario no farmer would want to be confronted with, and Federated Farmers president Katie MilneÃÂ ...
New Zealand Herald
March 28, 2018
Growing speculation in the rural community that the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis was introduced to New Zealand through illegally imported livestock drugs has strengthened with news that warranted government investigators have searched three locations. Sources suggest yesterday's simultaneous searches were inÃÂ ...
Bizcommunity.com
March 27, 2018
For instance, the experts said that the management of livestock diseases such as East Coast Fever requires data to effectively understand the impacts of the ... Smith said that most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have scanty or lack real-time data on livestock disease outbreaks, especially in arid andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 17, 2018
Farming is poised for a gene editing revolution that could overcome some of the world's most serious livestock diseases, the UK's top animal scientist has said. Prof Eleanor Riley, director of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, said new techniques will soon allow breeders to genetically engineer diseaseÃÂ ...
High Plains Journal
March 13, 2018
Roehr has been a member of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, American Veterinary Medical Association, the CVMA, National Animal Health Laboratory Network Coordinating Council, Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, Colorado State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (boardÃÂ ...
fnbnews.com
March 13, 2018
“About 75 per cent of new infectious diseases that have emerged in recent decades originated in animals before jumping to us Homo sapiens, a terrestrial mammal. This is why improving adequately discovering and tackling animal disease threats at source represents a strategic high-ground in pre-emptingÃÂ ...
High Plains Journal
March 13, 2018
Whisper Technology is an instrument that improves the diagnosis accuracy of BRD when cattle are brought into the chute for further assessment. By providing clarity on lung health and potential severity of disease, as well as which animals have BRD or are at the highest risk, Whisper will help veterinariansÃÂ ...
The Standard
March 13, 2018
This is attributable to several factors including; climate change, undernourishment, diseases due to open grazing, poor breeds and animal husbandry, past ... This is due to challenges in disease surveillance and traceability, drug residues in meat and meat by products, low health and food safety hygieneÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
March 13, 2018
This is attributable to factors such as climate change, undernourishment, diseases due to open grazing and poor breeds and animal husbandry. ... Penetrating high-value live animal and meat markets and generating quality-assured livestock products faces challenges in disease surveillance andÃÂ ...
Food Safety News
March 13, 2018
More than half don't know that they can pick up diseases from sick poultry or pets, according to a survey. ... “The fact that most farmers accessed information on diseases on the farm from multiple sources, suggests that a multi-faceted, One Health approach to infectious disease prevention in the farmingÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
March 13, 2018
Capacity building of national laboratories on animal disease, food safety and veterinary drug research should be developed and strengthened for rapid detection and early warning of outbreaks in ASEAN, according to a report produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
Telegraph.co.uk
March 11, 2018
It was the third time the committee, consisting of leading virologists, bacteriologists and infectious disease experts, had met to consider diseases with .... Domestic livestock are the most likely incubator for Disease X. Large groups of farm animals (chickens, pigs and even camels) kept in close quartersÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
March 8, 2018
Action against emerging pandemic threats is taken through projects on: Avian influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome, Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 and Emergency equipment stockpile. With high-impact diseases that jump from animals to humans on the rise, these programmes are reducing theÃÂ ...
NBC Montana
March 8, 2018
... positive for chronic wasting disease. FWP officials said the fatal disease affects deer, elk and moose and usually spreads through body fluids from other deer. FWP communication and education program manager Robert Gibson said the disease can't be spread to humans, pets, livestock or wildlife outside the deer family.
Bovine Veterinarian
March 8, 2018
Diseases such as leptospirosis, rabies, and ring worm are fairly common whereas anthrax and bovine tuberculosis are rare but still exist. Using personal protective equipment such as splash guards, eye wash stations, gloves, and wash stations will minimize disease along with good hygiene by livestockÃÂ ...
AgWeb
March 8, 2018
Riding a crest of popularity, Chipotle Mexican Grill's profits reached $445 million on revenue of $4.1 billion in 2014. Then the crash came. In the fall of 2015, more than 500 people fell ill after eating Salmonella- and E. coli-contaminated Chipotle burritos. The Centers for Disease Control and PreventionÃÂ ...
K24 TV
March 6, 2018
James Leposo is a livestock farmer in Oloitokitok, Kajiado County. Last year, he lost 106 cattle worth Sh4.5 million to a deadly disease and the 2016/17 prolonged drought. His animals were almost swept by Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP), a highly contagious bacterial disease that afflicts theÃÂ ...
SciDev.Net
March 6, 2018
Smith said that most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have scanty or lack real-time data on livestock disease outbreaks, especially in arid and semi-arid ... Mulongo added that the continent needs to increase studies in livestock diseases and the involvement of smallholders in such studies, and cited theÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
March 1, 2018
Foot and mouth disease is one of the destructive diseases affecting cattle, pigs, goats and sheep and results in the imposition of quarantines which, in turn, affect trade in animal and animal products in the affected areas. Dr Njagi said 84 outbreaks were reported last year, out of which 21 cases were inÃÂ ...
IEG Vu
March 1, 2018
US livestock operations are vulnerable to animal diseases, and speakers with Smithfield and the government discussed the need for strong traceability programs, plant employee training and vaccination as ways to mitigate the threat at a Feb. 23 session of USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum. Already aÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
March 1, 2018
The Ministry of Agriculture, through the State Department of Livestock, issued an alert on the dreaded disease that has affected different parts of the country. ... Foot and mouth disease is one of the destructive diseases affecting cattle, pigs, goats and sheep and results in the imposition of quarantines which,ÃÂ ...
The Herald
March 1, 2018
THE Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) has urged farmers to be on high alert for possible outbreaks of pests and diseases, which might affect both crops and livestock. This comes as farmers in most parts of the Midlands are battling to contain an outbreak of the fall armyworm, which, according to theÃÂ ...
RFID Journal
February 28, 2018
The state already requires official identification in the form of a metal tag to ensure that cattle owners meet its Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) policy, explains Jodi Jones, WSDA's Animal Services Division operation manager. The ADT program is intended to meet USDA expectations for all U.S. states toÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
February 28, 2018
PESHAWAR: The livestock department on Wednesday launched a campaign to raise awareness about animal diseases and take precautionary measures for protecting animals from diseases, especially epidemic ones, across the province including tribal areas. The livestock department held a ceremony toÃÂ ...
Radio New Zealand
February 28, 2018
In New Zealand there's been speculation that the disease might have got in via imported semen, but to date there's been no answer as to how the disease made its way here. Livestock Improvement (LIC) provides 80 percent of New Zealand's cattle breeding semen, and chief executive Wayne McNee saysÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
February 28, 2018
State Veterinarian Bob Gerlach talks about increasing incidence of disease in wildlife and livestock in a talk during Saturday's 46th Annual Delta Farm Forum at Delta Junction High School. (Tim Ellis/KUAC). State Veterinarian Bob Gerlach told a crowd that turned out Saturday for the 46th Annual Delta FarmÃÂ ...
P.M. News
February 28, 2018
Kenya on Wednesday issued an alert on mouth and foot disease across the country to help curb its spread. Obadiah Nyaga, the director of Veterinary Services in the Ministry of Agriculture, urged Kenyans to report the outbreak of the contagious viral infection immediately to the nearest veterinary office forÃÂ ...
KUAC
February 27, 2018
State Veterinarian Bob Gerlach told a crowd that turned out Saturday for the 46th Annual Delta Farm Forum that disease that afflict livestock and wildlife are increasingly showing up in Alaska. He says other diseases that are on the increase in northern-tier states and Canada also moving in this direction,ÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
December 31, 1999
Iowa State University researchers have completed testing of a key component of a new concept for disposing of animal carcasses following a disease outbreak. The research someday may help producers facing animal disease emergencies, such as in 2015 when avian influenza resulted in disposal ofÃÂ ...
KARK
December 7, 2017
It is similar to “mad cow disease” in cattle. These diseases are caused by misshapen proteins called prions, which accumulate in the tissues of affected animals, especially the brain, spinal cord, and lymph nodes. Infected animals will not show signs of disease at first, but late in the disease process, they will ...
AllAfrica.com
December 7, 2017
AFRICAN swine fever is a highly contagious disease to livestock and the fact that it has no vaccine makes it even more difficult to deal with in the event of an ... of Africa, Afrivet and Vet Network which recently launched an early warning system to detect the outbreak and impact of the livestock diseases.
Agriculture.com
December 7, 2017
Disease susceptibility may also be part of a DNA test, but he says that issue is complex. “For instance, bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is caused by several pathogens. An animal's resistance to disease is really resistance to a specific pathogen. It may be susceptible to one BRD organism but not another.
Manitoba Co-operator
December 7, 2017
There has definitely been a trend upwards of the various forms of clostridial disease seen primarily inside housed dairy cattle. ... Since vaccines for the clostridial diseases are, overall, the cheapest on the market, it behooves us to remember to vaccinate and develop a routine vaccination protocol with your ...
Devex
December 7, 2017
The new programs use genomics to look for disease and heat resistance in livestock and understand the adaptive traits. ... a number of findings and outcomes that will help better understand livestock genetics, diagnose and treat diseases, and develop healthier and more productive livestock in Africa.
NJ.com
December 7, 2017
A sheep tested negative for livestock diseases after its owner found an exotic tick on it that had not previously been seen in the United States, the state Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. On Aug. 1, a Hunterdon county resident brought in exotic East Asian ticks found on the sheep, which was then ...
Entomology Today
December 4, 2017
Insects most often sampled for purposes of human and animal health include disease vectors such as mosquitoes, biting midges, and sand flies. ... Among insects drawn by light traps, moreover, are species carrying diseases transmittable to humans and livestock, which could be exposed to infection in the ...
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