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Defra simplifies livestock movement rules
Defra are making the changes to simplify the rules on reporting livestock movements and how some farms are registered. All...
Scientists develop new foot-and-mouth test
FMD infects cloven-hoofed mammals like cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and some species of wildlife. Technique relies less on the use...
Fentanyl-related deaths ‘rising in humans’
Often, drug users don’t know what they’re buying and there is no way for them to know if it contains...
Back to basics – insects and arachnids
Even for a dedicated exotic animal clinician, invertebrates are unlikely to make up a high percentage of the annual...
New PEDv vaccine shows promise
PEDv can kill up to 100 per cent of infected piglets. Development hailed ‘great news’ for the swine industry ...
Global superbug fight ‘needs $5b a year’
Rising antibiotic resistance is triggering the emergence of superbugs that can cause life-threatening infections, such as MRSA or drug-resistant tuberculosis....