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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
