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The number of female dairy heifer calves born so far this year is back 12.1% on 2024 and is back 15.4% on 2023 levels. This ...
Calculate how much it will cost to vaccinate your livestock against bluetongue virus and how much it could save you using our interactive calculators. Bluetongue is a notifiable animal disease. If you ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Bluetongue restrictions have been extended until May 15. This means farmers can only move animals out of a Bluetongue-restricted zone without ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. It might be cooler these last few days, but it’s only a matter of time before midge activity ramps up again and starts spreading Bluetongue. So ...
In Nigeria, the Lassa virus claimed the lives of 127 people in the first week of April. The Nigerian Centre for Disease ...
A deadly new virus is sweeping through Europe, killing every rabbit it touches in a matter of hours. An aggressive strain of the disease is now thought to be spreading across the UK countryside ...
She created a comic in 1999 entitled “The future as I see it” that foresaw a virus wreaking havoc upon the world in 2020, according to Japan Today. “Around 2020, an unknown virus will appear ...
This year, thousands more Brits will be vaccinated against a potentially deadly virus that causes flu-like symptoms and results in over 50,000 hospitalisations annually. The Department for Health ...
18, 2025 — A team led by researchers say public ignorance and apathy towards bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) could pose a serious obstacle to containing the virus and ...
Major poultry and dairy organizations back vaccine use to control the virus. The Trump administration is rolling out a new strategy to combat avian flu, moving away from mass culling of infected ...