Horse tested over sex infection
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A horse has been put under quarantine after testing positive for a rare sexually transmitted infection. The horse is in isolation in the Newmarket area, the home of UK horse racing, after being found to have Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA).
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An Iowa lab is working to confirm initial tests indicating a sickly US animal had mad cow disease, 11 months after the nation&#39;s first case emerged in Washington state.
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AIDS viruses from two people are being studied to see if they are the source of a rare form of H.I.V. detected in a New York City man.
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Petting zoos and their  customers need to pay more attention to hygiene in order to  prevent animal-transmitted infections, a Canadian study  suggests.
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Thousands of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection this weekend, campaigners warn.
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A fourth animal has been found to have contracted the bluetongue disease in Suffolk, Defra says.
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A second sample from the horse of German  Olympic show jumping champion Ludger Beerbaum has tested  positive for a banned substance, the German equestrian  federation said on Thursday.
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Further tests are being carried out at a Suffolk farm hit by the UK's first case of bluetongue disease.
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An animal suspected of having mad cow disease was given a clean bill of health in a second round of sophisticated testing, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday after cattle prices soared in expectation of the news.
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A banned substance is found in the horse of Ireland's Olympic show jumping champion Cian O'Connor.
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Thoroughbred racing was banned indefinitely on Monday in Australia's most populous state of New South Wales, as an outbreak of equine flu spread to 60 horses and another 450 horses were suspected of being infected.
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A backup doping sample from the horse that won the show jumping gold medal at the Athens Olympics also was positive for a banned substance, the Irish rider&#39;s lawyer said Tuesday.
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Statements issued yesterday by the Irish rider, Cian O&#39;Connor, and his solicitor, Andrew Coonan, have confirmed the presence of forbidden substances in a blood sample taken from the horse
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Authorities are investigating a suspected bird disease outbreak at a farm in north Wales, the Welsh assembly said on Thursday.
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Campaigners today call for urgent tests on the nation's farm animals after the emergence of a new strain of MRSA which has spread rapidly among farmers in Europe, causing an array of serious infections.
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A particularly serious form of the sexually transmitted bacterial disease syphilis has been detected in gay and bisexual U.S. men infected with the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported on Thursday.
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A horse in Cliff is Grant County&#39;s first confirmed case of West Nile virus this year. The equine reportedly has survived the disease, and is recovering, according to a spokesman for a Silver City-based veterinary