An outbreak of the bacterial disease, anthrax has affected some 150 cattle in the Angolan province of Benguela, according to a Horn of Africa Online report. The outbreak began in early November in the...

The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (computer translated) is reporting today a second bird flu outbreak at a Netherlands farm. The latest outbreak has been detected Ter Aar (Zuid-Holland) in the southern...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney T.D. commented Tuesday on the recent confirmation of outbreaks of the Highly Pathogenic avian ‘flu (HPAI) in Germany, the Netherlands...

In a follow-up to a story yesterday concerning the avian influenza (AI) outbreak in Yorkshire, England, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency (DEFRA)...

Two South Dakota State University researchers will examine a new influenza virus that affects cattle and pigs through a two-year, $393,530 National Institutes of Health grant. Virologist Feng Li and immunologist...

Cases of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) have been identified in other Canadian provinces but Alberta has been PED free in pigs to date. However, the Alberta Agriculture Ministry has reported a positive...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) is reporting that two horses in Bonneville County were euthanized after displaying neurological symptoms consistent with Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1). Laboratory...

A skin-eating fungal disease brought to Europe by humans now poses a major threat to native salamanders and newts, scientists have warned. The previously unknown fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources last week confirmed the first positive case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the state in a captive deer operation...

Pennsylvania agricultural officials reports a case of  Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a captive deer from west-central Jefferson County, making this the 10th case confirmed in the state since the...