The North African country Libya has informed the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that multiple outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) have surfaced in cattle and sheep within the national boundaries. The FMD outbreaks have been reported in the northwest of the country, according to a ...

Novartis Animal Health has announced that it is restarting the distribution of stockpiled veterinary products from the US plant that was voluntarily closed last month (Animal Pharm January 20th). There is no schedule for the resumption of manufacture, although the company says this is a top ...

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 ...

Elanco Animal Health , the veterinary medicines division of Eli Lilly & Co , has reported a 21% increase in revenues from its 2011 full year’s trading. Elanco has posted full year revenues of $1.678 billion, up from $1.391bn in 2010. Sales in the US market increased by 16% to $896.8m, driven ...

Avian flu has been found at two duck farms in the state of Victoria in Australia. The Australian Chicken Meat Federation (ACMF) said that it was a low pathogenic strain of avian flu and that the government was working quickly to eliminate the disease. The virus was detected during routine testing ...

The final two members of the newly created Animal Health and Welfare Board for England (AHWBE) have been appointed. Richard Davis , a dairy and arable farmer from North Bedfordshire, and Jonathan Rushton , an economist and senior lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College in London have been ...

United Kingdom researchers have discovered why some animal and human health vaccines are not as effective at stimulating an immune response as would be expected and have investigated ways in which improvements could be made. The study focussed on the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis that has also ...

The New Zealand Animal Health Board (AHB) is opposing a move by the Waikato Regional Council in North Island to scrap the funding for a long-running bovine TB control program. The Council has proposed removing NZ$825,000 ($675,000) funding for bovine tuberculosis control in possums and ferrets from ...

Merck and Co has decided to base its Animal Health division – trading as Merck Animal Health in the United States and Canada and MSD Animal Health in the rest of the world – at the Merck Campus in Summit, New Jersey in the US. The move follows a period of uncertainty over the headquarters location ...

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 ...

The UK-based Animalcare Grou p says its total revenue for the first half of the financial year ending December 31 was approximately 10% lower than in the comparable period in 2010. One of the reasons for this was the impact of temporary supply problems for its post-operative analgesia product ...

Pfizer Animal Health has become the first veterinary medicines company to break the $4 billion annual revenues barrier. However, the business remains on the market as the parent company seeks to focus on its core human pharmaceutical activity. The Animal Health division has reported revenues of ...

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 ...

Novartis Animal Health KK, the Japanese arm of the global business, has obtained market authorization in Japan for Feline Milbemax Flavor Tablets (milbemycin oxim and praziquantel) for the control of Toxocara cati (cat large round worm), Ancylostoma tubaeforme (cat hookworm) and Dipylidium caninum ...

The Spanish Divasa-Farmavic (DFV) Group has made a significant investment in expanding its capacity to produce veterinary pharmaceuticals in Europe. These will be made both under its own brands and through contract manufacturing arrangements. The expansion is part of the company’s 2008-12 strategic ...