The twist is that in animal agriculture, most antibiotics are not used for targeted disease treatment—that is, to treat individual animals who have been specifically diagnosed with a bacterial ...

and increased disease resistance. Development of transgenic farm animals will allow more flexibility in direct genetic manipulation of livestock. Gene transfer is a relatively rapid way of ...

These actions, in combination with other important etiologic factors, could be responsible for disease outcome. Table 1 Smoking and its associations with gastrointestinal disease. Although ...

Thousands of slaughtered farm animals are set to be buried near Hungary's border with Austria after a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the town of Levél. In the northern Hungarian Győr-Moson ...

BRUSSELS — Bird flu, swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease: Countries in the European Union should not hesitate to vaccinate farm animals against them, according to Emmanuelle Soubeyran, director ...

FirstFarms is working closely with the authorities to prevent the spread of infection and vaccination of the animals is in progress. The outbreak on FirstFarms’ farm in Slovakia is the first in ...