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Farming breakthrough: Cattle plague bites the dust – AsiaOne

PARIS, FRANCE – In a moment that is being compared to the eradication of smallpox among humans, farming monitors on Wednesday will declare an ancient, devastating cattle disease has been stamped out after a nearly nine-decade effort. Rinderpest, a highly contagious and usually fatal viral disease also known as cattle plague, has been a curse Read More »

May 24, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, and International
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Sharjah lab at the front line of biosecurity – The National

A team of four specialists at the lab is seeking to increase biosecurity and food safety in the UAE. "It is vital to protect our agriculture from diseases, locally and from abroad, because they can be truly destructive to our plants," said Dr Khader

May 23, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Middle East, and Agriculture
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Farmers fighting plague of pests – Times LIVE

Red Meat Producers' Organisation chairman Gerhard Schutte said the government had been warned of a possible foot-and-mouth scourge several months before the February outbreak in northern KwaZulu-Natal. "It is a capacity problem at this stage – it is …

May 23, 2011
| Filed under Africa and Agriculture
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Laying a global cattle killer to rest – BBC News

After centuries during which it wiped out hundreds of millions of cattle around the world, scientists are preparing to declare rinderpest – otherwise known as cattle plague – formally eradicated. Untreated, it can kill infected animals within days, …

May 23, 2011
| Filed under Europe, Agents & Toxins, and Agriculture
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South Australia to be tested in ‘Exercise Golden Fleece’ – Stock Journal

The national emergency animal disease Rapid Response Team will be taking part in Exercise Golden Fleece, responding to a hypothetical 'outbreak' of foot and mouth disease. The exercise will be held at a number of centres across the region, …