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07-04 | News

FMD Europe: Austria closes borders for pigs, cattle

Subclinical pneumonia is common in the UK’s population of dairy-born calves, but diagnosis could easily be missed if stakeholders only observed clinical signs. Photo: Mark Pasveer
07-04 | News

Nearly a third of UK calves experience bovine respiratory disease

Researchers will be seek to understand bird flu transmission and to mitigate the impact of the disease in dairy herds and the livestock sector as a whole. Photo: Mark Pasveer
02-04 | News

Financial support to combat avian influenza in livestock in the US

Germany’s Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir "The regained freedom status sends a clear signal to our trading partners." Photo: Henk Riswick
14-03 | News

Germany declared ‘FMD-free’

This is the first study to explore CAM use on dairy farms in a UK context. Photo: Koos Groeneveld
12-03 | News

Benefits of transparency in alternative medicine use on dairy farms 

Low-fibre diets allow fermentation acids to accumulate in the rumen and cause ulcers. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten
06-03 | Article

Feeding dairy cows under various disease conditions

The country as a whole can fight current epidemics more efficiently and rapidly, but also prevent new threats, Annie Genevard, France’s minister of agriculture, food sovereignty and forestry, said about livestock diseases. Photo: Canva
13-02 | News

France calls for one plan against livestock diseases

The Nevada State Department of Agriculture has stated that the D1.1 strain of H5N1 is the first detection of this virus genotype in dairy cattle. Photo: Henk Risick
06-02 | News

US: First detection of newer variant of bird flu in dairy cows

Restrictions that have been in place to mitigate the Bluetongue virus have been eased. Photo: Canva
30-01 | News

Bluetongue virus restrictions eased in the UK