Six new outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) were reported this week from Russia’s Tver and Volgograd regions. Only one of the outbreaks is in
Author: Anna Tomasulo
Despite epidemics in recent years in the neighboring countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, Estonia has reportedly been fire blight-free until this year. Estonia’s Viljandi
Update: South Dakota just reported its first WNV case of the season. The case was detected in a blood donor who was not sick. Over the past
Wednesday, July 11, Mass. health officials announced finding four mosquitoes infected with Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). Catherine Brown, State Public Health Veterinarian, stated that they
A new case of vCJD, or variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease has been reported in France. The French press is not yet reporting the location of the
Doctors from the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia announced on Sunday, July 8, that the mystery illness is Hand, Foot and Mouth disease, a
Over the past two weeks, British Columbia has been in a tizzy over the proposed Animal Health Care Act, legislation that prohibits certain parties from
On Tuesday April 24 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow in
Members of the scientific community suggest that the threat posed by certain fungi has been underestimated. Existing and emerging infectious diseases caused by fungi threaten
What began as a dip in a pool, ended in a leg amputation. According to a case report in the April 2012 Journal of Clinical