No Anthrax in Caprivi Livestock
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ANTHRAX, which has so far killed 11 wild animals in the Caprivi, has not yet spread to livestock, an official in the Ministry of Environment said yesterday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government and farmers are rejecting the prospect of a mass cull to protect the cattle industry from mad cow disease and to restore international confidence in Canadian beef.
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Namibia&#39;s veterinary authorities will launch a vaccinating campaign from next week against an anthrax outbreak that was confirmed to have spread from neighboring Botswana
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French experts say 4,000 chickens found dead at a farm in north-eastern France did not die of bird flu.
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Canada said on Thursday it had discovered a suspected case of mad cow disease, but said the 10-year-old animal in question had not entered the human or animal feed system.
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U.S. agriculture officials said on   Friday that tests found the H5N1 avian influenza virus in   mallard ducks in Maryland but it appeared to be a   low-pathogenic strain that posed no risk to humans.
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A cow for which preliminary tests for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as &quot;mad cow disease&quot;) had proved inclusive has been determined free of the disease, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced November 23.
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Bernard Matthews denies any cover-up following the bird flu outbreak at one of his Suffolk farms.
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Two rounds of precise tests in an Iowa lab found no evidence of mad cow disease in an animal suspected last week of having the brain-wasting ailment, federal officials said Tuesday.
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Turkeys at a farm in Virginia had antibodies to a low-risk strain of bird flu but direct evidence of infection has not been found, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
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It&#39;s a big relief for the US beef industry. The Agriculture Department says no Mad Cow Disease has turned up in an animal singled out last week for additional testing.
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Immunization through the skin, using a patch, protects mice against normally lethal inhaled doses of anthrax bacteria, according to a new report.
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The government plans to develop an experimental treatment for anthrax from the blood of people vaccinated against it. Such a medicine has never been tested on people, but scientists think it has a good chance of working based on animal tests. Federal ...
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An anthrax outbreak has killed 120 hippos in Uganda, raising the toll from a disease that has claimed hundreds of wild animals in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in recent weeks, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Two people in southeastern Romania are being treated in hospital for anthrax, an animal disease which can be transmitted to humans, health officials said on Monday.
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The government confirmed Friday that cattle slaughtered on a farm in southern England tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease.The disease was detected Wednesday in cattle grazing in Surrey county, 10 miles from laboratories linked to an outbreak last month, said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.Some 40 cattle and 800 pigs on the farm were slaughtered Thursday, according to Steven Ward, the owner's son.Scientists were trying to determine whether the disease could have spread outside a six-mile containment zone set up around the farm, which includes Heathrow Airport and Queen Elizabeth II's Windsor Castle. Read more
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OTTAWA (CP) - No feed bag - or cat dish - will be left unturned as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency probes what cattle on a central Alberta farm may have eaten to trigger a case of mad cow disease.