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Tail docking in pigs causes long-term pain
Tail docking is often used to control the problem of tail biting. Study identifies nerve pain in stump up to...
Novel method for less invasive foot-and-mouth testing
Foot-and-mouth disease costs an estimated US $11 billion per year in direct losses and vaccinations. Study highlights potential of analysing...
African swine fever reaches China
The UK’s National Pig Association said the outbreak is ‘significant’, as China is home to more than half the global...
UK pig sector halves antibiotic use in two years
Use of the Highest Priority Critically Important Antibiotics represented just 0.08 per cent of total antibiotic use in pigs in...
Novel technique may cut cost of bronchitis vaccine production
Infectious bronchitis remains a major problem in the global poultry industry. Because Researchers grow IBV cell cultures in the laboratory...
Breakthrough for global eradication of Peste des Petits Ruminants
Current PPR eradication strategy is reliant on mass vaccination campaigns. Researchers identify production systems as viral reservoirs Researchers at the...