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Calls for Brucellosis vaccine after outbreak in India

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

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

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

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

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...