The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according ...

Eight-year-old girl dies from brucellosis in Kerala, highlighting the dangers of consuming unpasteurised milk products.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services is once again hosting the “I Protect Pigs” ...

Prion diseases such as CWD ... southern United States where there are large, feral swine populations,” Bartz says. Although the risk of transmission is low for now, some people see the stakes ...

African swine fever does not infect humans, but its fatality rate is close to total for pigs and wild boars. No effective vaccine exists. Farm ministry officials said the disease was found in ...

Under the proposal, APHIS would create sectors for various types of swine herds and production facilities centered on production methods and disease risk. Participating sites would be able to ...

Another potential pathway for transmission could be from ... because the virus can adapt” inside the pig, said Katelyn Jetelina, an infectious-disease specialist who has been following the ...