The confirmed presence of the Schmallenberg virus in five European countries has led to an urgent request from the European Commission for a risk assessment. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to advise how the virus could manifest itself in animals over the coming months. Virus experts ...

The confirmed presence of the Schmallenberg virus in five European countries has led to an urgent request from the European Commission for a risk assessment. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to advise how the virus could manifest itself in animals over the coming months. Virus experts ...

Indian scientists are progressing to clinical studies in cattle in order to assess a novel bovine TB drug delivery system based on nano technology. They claim specificity for the lungs is much enhanced using this approach, leading to faster treatment times and lower risk of interaction with ...

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of the German multinational, has launched Ingelvac MycoFLEX, a new-generation swine mycoplasamal pneumonia vaccine to suppress the development of lung lesions and alleviate weight loss caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in pigs. Ingelvac ...

An Austrian manufacturer of veterinary pharmaceuticals has registered a ketoprofen-based product as an analgesic for use in piglet castration. Richter Pharma says this is the first time the compound has been used for this purpose – the registration is in response to a growing demand for better ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has called for a review of scientific communication on the transmission of avian influenza. This follows concern that publishing details on how to engineer avian influenza virus to make it easily transmissible between mammals is too risky. The review will ...

Elanco Animal Health is to acquire a feed enzyme business in a move that is in line with its strategy to become involved in wider aspects of the food animal production chain. The business, a division of Eli Lilly and Company , has agreed to acquire the ChemGen Corporation, a privately owned held ...

The confirmed presence of the Schmallenberg virus in five European countries has led to an urgent request from the European Commission for a risk assessment. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to advise how the virus could manifest itself in animals over the coming months. Virus experts ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom have shown that proper management of footrot could cut lameness from one in ten to one in fifty sheep in the country. The research promises a sea change in tackling the endemic disease, which causes lameness in around nine million ewes ...

Scottish researchers say they have made a discovery which could ultimately help to develop a control for a major cause of infection in farmed fish. The University of Aberdeen researchers have uncovered a method that a fungus-like organism uses to infect salmon and trout. The disease Saprolegniosis, ...

A Spanish consortium of aquaculture fish producers based in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain have brought back the Adriatic sturgeon from the brink of extinction to produce commercial quantities of caviar. Located in the town of Rio Frio using water from mountain streams the ...

MSD Animal Health is launching in the European Union the first single shot vaccine that protects rabbits for 12 months against both myxomatosis and rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD). Headquartered at Boxmeer in the Netherlands, the company says the vaccine is available in single dose vials and aimed ...

With bee numbers in decline in North America and Europe, pesticides have come under scrutiny as possible culprits for the increase in mortality. In particular, acaricides that are applied to hives to control the Varroa mite and the neonicotinoid insecticides that are widely used in crop protection ...