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FAO acts to cut foot-and-mouth disease in S. America – Xinhua

SANTIAGO, May 19 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday it has launched a program aimed at eradicating foot-and-mouth disease in South America by 2020. Under the initiative, owners of about 70 percent of …

Science goes global to combat animal diseases

YORKSHIRE POST — The Government claims that the UK will be better protected against animal diseases like foot-and-mouth, thanks to a global network dedicated to scientific research. The increasingly globalised movement of animals, people and food have greatly raised the risk of animal diseases spreading to the UK – a danger which poses serious economic,  Read More »

Personal biosecurity for livestock farm visits

CATTLE NETWORK — Recent animal health problems in Asia and elsewhere keep pointing to the need to reconsider our defense against emerging animal diseases. In the last decade, biosecurity has often been talked about in agriculture, but practiced haphazardly. Animal biosecurity covers a variety of management strategies aimed at preventing viruses, pathogenic bacteria, parasites and  Read More »

A “whole-system redesign” of U.S. agriculture

HOMELAND SECURITY NEWSWIRE — Transformative changes in markets, policy, and science, rather than just incremental changes in farming practices and technology, will be critical if the United States is to achieve long-term sustainability in agriculture, according to a nationwide team of agriculturists that includes a University of California, Davis, animal scientist

Response drills for foot and mouth disease begin [this] week

DAIRY HERD NETWORK — The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has prompted heightened awareness of a possible retaliatory terrorist attack. And, the livestock community is not immune to the threat. At last week’s International Symposium on Agroterrorism, hosted by the FBI, some of the speakers mentioned that the U.S. food and agricultural system  Read More »

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