Feed is not on the list of common transmission sources for the the dangerous herpes virus that has killed horses in several states in the West and Midwest.
Instead, the
In January, Pfizer Animal Health began marketing a new vaccine with the power to reduce the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in beef cows by 85 percent. One would
Ohio State University scientists say they could be well on their way to developing a safe vaccine against norovirus — the pathogen that causes millions of gastrointestinal illnesses every year in
The North American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Bank, administered jointly by commissioners from the United States, Canada and Mexico, is providing the Republic of Korea with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine needed
Editor’s note: If you had a magic wand, how would you conjure up sustainable ways to make the food supply safe? We asked several people to consider the possibilities.
After acquiring worldwide rights to the promising E. coli O157:H7 vaccine, Pfizer Animal Health is putting its considerable marketing clout behind the only product known for reducing E. coli
The Cabell-Huntington County Health Department in West Virginia has vaccinated 236 people in two free community clinics after 11 individuals were infected with hepatitis A in the Milton area.
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With the plethora of beef recalls over recent years, companies and scientists are teaming up to develop pre-harvest vaccines for livestock used for food. Pre-harvest vaccines are administered to livestock
This month marks the fifteenth Anniversary of Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States; May 19 is World Hepatitis Day.
World Hepatitis Day was launched by the World Hepatitis Alliance
A Central Indiana dairy farm sold a small herd of cattle for slaughter as food that tests showed had higher than permissible levels of various antibiotics in kidney and liver
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) held briefings on Capitol Hill Monday to educate lawmakers and their staff about antibiotics in agriculture and to push back against proposed federal legislation
Brooke Deatherage received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Washington in December of 2009 for her work with Salmonella. Since the publication of her first article, “Biogenesis