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 US Food and Drug Administration has issued an order prohibiting off-label and preventative uses of cephalosporins in cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys. The agency is taking the step to help preserve the efficacy of these antibiotics in the treatment of infections in humans. By banning certain ...
The Hong Kong Government has banned imports of live chickens from China and suspended trading in live birds after a dead chicken was found to have the H5N1 virus at poultry market.
It is not known if the bird was imported from China or is of local origin but a Hong Kong animal health official said ...