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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...