Animal Health & Veterinary

Antibiotic-free Production

WOAH Members adopt updated Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance

The adoption brings the global community one step closer to a coordinated, One Health response to one of the most pressing challenges facing human, animal, plant and environmental health.

New World screwworm

FFAR research to strengthen New World screwworm preparedness

The project will provide producers and animal health officials with evidence-based tools to prioritize surveillance, producer preparedness and improve response efforts in the U.S.

Mycotoxins

DSM-Firmenich survey: 85% of feed samples contain multiple mycotoxins

Global survey of more than 10,400 samples finds the majority contained multiple mycotoxins, confirming co-contamination remains one of the industry’s biggest challenges.

African Swine Fever

WOAH releases new guidelines for assessing, monitoring ASF vaccine efficacy

The guidelines should make it easier for regulators to evaluate safety data on ASF vaccines used in other countries, according to a Pirbright Institute veterinarian.

African Swine Fever

India develops African swine fever vaccine

India has become the second country in Asia to develop a vaccine to protect pigs against African swine fever.

Animal Health & Veterinary

H5N1 experience shows importance of One Health collaboration

Cheryl Stroud of the One Health Commission says the dairy cattle outbreak reveals gaps in communication across animal agriculture.

Legal News

Federal judge lets part of Triumph Foods’ Prop 12 challenge move forward

A court will allows the meat processor to continue pressing a Commerce Clause challenge to the state’s pig confinement law while tossing a separate due process claim.

Antibiotic-free Production

Research links rise in antibiotic use to viral outbreaks in poultry

Industry survey ties most of a recent jump in antibiotic use in poultry to outbreaks of avian metapneumovirus and colibacillosis.

African Swine Fever

Study: Humans facilitated spread of ASF between wild boar and pigs

African swine fever spread rapidly in Romania in 2018 due to human movement of pigs and pork products, not just wild boar migration, new research says.

New World screwworm

Study: Fight against NWS must include wildlife surveillance

A new study warns that efforts to control New World screwworm (NWS) will be weakened if governments focus primarily on legal livestock production systems while overlooking illegal cattle movements, wildlife, protected areas and remote landscapes where infestations can go undetected.

New World screwworm

FFAR research to advance more effective control of New World screwworm

This research advances a radiation-free sterility approach that could become a critical component of NWS eradication efforts in the U.S.

African Swine Fever

ASF hits more communities in the Philippines

The Southeast Asian nation has seen more cases of African swine fever (ASF) in the Visayas region in recent weeks, and there has been a sharp year-on-year increase in outbreaks in Vietnam.

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