The Governor of Svalbard ordered the killing of two reindeer found in Tverrdalen due to suspicion of rabies. The animals were sick and could not stand upright. Samples of both animals are sent to the...

Norway health officials are reporting a positive rabies case in a reindeer from Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard. The Governor of Svalbard received a report of a sick reindeer on July 16th. The reindeer was...

The anthrax outbreak in the Yamal Peninsula in of northern Siberia, Russia, that began in mid-July has resulted in the death of 2,349 reinderr, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health...

A day after Yamal, Siberia Governor Dmitry Kobylkin, declared a state of emergency because of an anthrax outbreak, the first in the region in 75 years, specialists from the Russian Chemical, Radioactive...