Livestock & Poultry Diseases: Page 7

Avian Influenza

CDC taps Texas A&M to assess avian flu among dairy farm workers

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a more than US$3 million, one-year grant to a multidisciplinary research team led by experts at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health to assess the presence of avian influenza among dairy farm workers in Texas.

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Dairy Cow Health & Disease

Researchers work to develop H5N1 vaccine for dairy cows

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and Genvax Technologies are investing $278,163 into a Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) grant to develop an H5N1 vaccine for dairy cows.

Avian Influenza

Stopping HPAI may require changes to poultry farming

Designing complexes around the way infectious diseases spread could minimize future losses.

African Swine Fever

Further swine fever cases confirmed in Asia, Europe, Africa, Caribbean

As the Philippines makes progress on its African swine fever (ASF) vaccination program, new cases in domestic pigs are reported there, as well as India, Vietnam and the Dominican Republic.

Avian Influenza

Human H5N1 case in Mexico linked to D1.1 genotype

Contract tracing has not yet identified the source of the fatal infection.

African Swine Fever

Discovery allows scientists to rewrite ASF virus genome

The new technique could allow scientists to develop better vaccines for African swine fever and other diseases.

Avian Influenza

Air filtration in layer houses could protect against HPAI

The technology gives producers an additional tool besides biosecurity for improving disease control.

African Swine Fever

ASF vaccine research picks up in Asia

Ongoing disruption of the Vietnam pork market from African swine fever (ASF) is driving one vaccine manufacturer there to carry out the first vaccination trials on breeding pigs, and the Philippines has also set up an animal vaccine research facility.

Animal Health & Veterinary

Senators urge USDA to include turkeys, dairy cattle in avian flu strategy

Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are pressing U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to broaden the USDA's strategy for managing avian influenza to include measures for turkeys and dairy herds.

Avian Influenza

India implements 3-pronged bird flu management strategy

HPAI has recently re-emerged in the country.

Animal Nutrition Views

Impact of disease outbreaks on global feed trade

When a major livestock disease strikes, governments react quickly by imposing export bans on live animals and animal products, as well as on feed ingredients derived from these sources.

Avian Influenza

HPAI testing improvements suspended after HHS staffing cuts

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is suspending efforts to improve testing for highly pathogenic avian influenza due to staffing cuts throughout the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Reuters report.

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