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RUMA announces timetable for antibiotic targets
Following the O’Neill Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, the UK Government challenged UK agriculture to reduce average antibiotic use by around...
Charity rehomes commercial hens to great effect
The hens are referred to as ‘the girls’ and have been effective in bringing people together and encouraging them to...
H5N8 outbreaks ‘unprecedented’, Defra concludes
To date, there have been over 1,000 reported poultry outbreaks and nearly 1,500 wild bird findings. Epidemiological report finds wild...
Zinc oxide to be phased out by 2022
Zinc oxide is widely used in the EU to prevent and control post-weaning diarrhoea and bowel oedema disease in young...
Sheep vets gain easy access to disease data
“The sheep disease surveillance dashboard provides vets and farmers with a user-friendly means of accessing sheep disease data and enables...
Mutations could allow H7N9 to spread among humans
H7N9 usually infects birds but has spread to at least 779 humans in outbreaks linked to poultry markets. Monitoring mutations...