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Ankole cattle corridor faces anthrax outbreak

(Daily Monitor) The Ankole cattle corridor is on high alert following an anthrax outbreak that claimed the lives of two people in Sheema District, last week. The district health inspector, Mr Francis Mugume, said five other people were admitted to Kabwohe Health …

Paraguay Cattle Health Scare Blamed On Human Error

Paraguayan health officials said this month “human error” led to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) that has seriously hurt the country's vital cattle industry. “After the most recent laboratory analysis, we have confirmed that the outbreak of …

Disease monitoring units face axe

(BBC News) Surveillance of animal diseases became heightened after the devastating foot and mouth outbreak in February 2001 in which thousands of animals throughout the UK had to be destroyed. Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said he was accepting the …

Chicago CBP: Eliminating what “bugs” us

(Examiner.com) … country Some of the diseases that can be transported include the African swine fever, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, classical swine fever, exotic Newcastle disease, foot-and-mouth disease, highly pathogenic avian influenza, and ticks and mites. …

‘Aggrieved’ Tonota farmers must wait

(Mmegi Online) Farmers from the Tonota region will enjoy a little more time with their remaining cattle herds as they await the ruling in a case in which they are suing government over the slaughter of their cattle after the outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) …