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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.

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.

Animal Welfare

SMART Broiler: Improved welfare means better margins

Better animal welfare can result in improvements in feed conversion, antibiotic use and more.

Avian Influenza

Air filtration in layer houses could protect against HPAI

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

Feed Strategy Podcast

Gut instincts: Enhancing poultry health through the microbiome [PODCAST]

Anitox's Dr. Alastair Thomas discusses how optimizing the poultry microbiome produces better growth performance and reduces feed costs.

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.

Business & Markets

Bill that takes aim at Proposition 12 introduced in US Senate

The Food Security and Farm Protection Act, co-sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Roger Marshall (Kansas), would prohibit any state or local government from interfering with commerce and agricultural practices in another state outside their jurisdiction.

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