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BVA urges clarity over cull time frames
Eleven additional licences for badger control will be granted to parts of Devon, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and Cheshire. Vets raise...

Huge rise in animals killed without stunning
Welfare at slaughter is one of the most pressing health and welfare concern for vets. Vets raise ‘grave concern’ New...

Vets to illustrate what lies beneath a cow’s hide
The installation will focus on the calves’ musculoskeletal system, nervous system, and internal organs. Pictured, a cow from last year’s...

Scotland launches consultation on bovine TB
The consultation seeks views on a proposal to introduce changes to the need for post-movement testing. Move ’vital to maintaining...

Calls for Brucellosis vaccine after outbreak in India
The disease is a highly contagious zoonosis and can spread easily from animals to humans via unpasteurised milk and cheese...

Parasite communication method could prevent sleeping sickness
Spread by the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness presents a major threat to human health in areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Competing...
Defra consultation on new chicken welfare statutory code
The new statutory code aims to provide up-to-date guidance on the welfare of meat chickens Views sought on welfare of...

Concern over anthelmintic reclassification
Startect Dual Active Oral Solution for sheep has been reclassified from POM-V to POM-VPS. Startect Dual Active Oral Solution changed...

BVA calls for CCTV in Welsh slaughterhouses
The BVA has called on Wales to consider introducing mandatory CCTV in Welsh slaughterhouses. Animal Health and Welfare group to...

Swine flu study calls for shorter pig exhibitions
The researchers found genetically identical flu virus at multiple fairs in Michigan and Ohio. Ohio State researchers track human cases...