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 Equine herpes virus, which is said to be a common virus of horses worldwide, is spread by horses breathing upon
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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 think that such a miracle drug would be quickly and widely adopted by the meat industry, but so far only a
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 United States.
In a EurekAlert news release Tuesday, the researchers say their experimental vaccine against the human norovirus
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 to assist the country with its ongoing FMD outbreak.
The bank will provide the antigen needed to manufacture 2.5 million
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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. Here is another response, from Dr. Richard Raymond, former Undersecretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If
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 O157 shedding and prevalence at the source, inside the cattle.
Madison, NJ-based Pfizer Animal Health acquired global rights for the vaccine
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.
No source for the outbreak has been identified.
The health department is currently working to identify all potential contacts. Adults
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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 to minimize the presence of naturally occurring bacteria within the ruminants that can cause human illness.
“There are animal health products under
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 in 2008. The goal is to raise awareness about viral hepatitis in the U.S. and around the world.
According
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 tissues, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says.
FDA sent a “Warning Letter” to Providence Dairy LLC in Twelve
