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Botswana to export cattle from FMD infected zones to Zimbabwe

(Bulawayo24 News) AN outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Botswana has forced the country’s government to export more than 20 000 head of cattle from infected zones to Zimbabwe for direct slaughter and to donate 600 000 doses to vaccinate the Zimbabwean herd, it has been learnt. Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Read More »

July 11, 2011
| Filed under Africa and Agriculture
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Rinderpest, Scourge of Cattle, Is Vanquished

(New York Times) On Tuesday in a ceremony in Rome, the United Nations is officially declaring that for only the second time in history, a disease has been wiped off the face of the earth. The disease is rinderpest. Everyone has heard of smallpox. Very few have heard of the runner-up. That’s because rinderpest is Read More »

June 29, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, International, and Public Health
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Analysis: Local wisdom key to combating animal diseases

(IRIN News) — NAIROBI – Flush with success over the unprecedented eradication of rinderpest, scientists are setting their sights on the next big livestock disease to rid from the world. Experts are aligning their crosshairs over foot and mouth disease, which affects every continent except Antarctica. “In my opinion foot and mouth disease is by Read More »

June 21, 2011
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agriculture, and Public Health
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Uganda says Ebola outbreak is over

(Reuters) Uganda has successfully prevented the rare and deadly Ebola virus from spreading, nearly two months after a 12 year-old girl bled to death after contracting the disease, officials said on Friday. “Uganda is free of Ebola,” Doctor Anthony Mbonya, chairman of a national task force set up after the girl’s death, told Reuters. “The Read More »

June 20, 2011
| Filed under Africa and Public Health
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East Africa and Middle East seek plan to keep animal diseases from disrupting livestock trade

(Burness Communications) — With increased trade in livestock products offering a possible antidote to high food prices, livestock experts from the Middle East and 12 African countries are meeting this week in Dubai to develop a strategy that eliminates the need to impose devastating bans on livestock imports from the Horn of Africa, as prevention Read More »