Macedonian Vets Note Reduction in Brucellosis in Southeast
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After Skopje's Veterinary Faculty analysed the blood samples of sheep and goats taken during the spring and autumn operations, it revealed 190 cases of infected cattle.
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Tests have confirmed the presence of the H5N1 bird flu strain in poultry found dead in two suburban Moscow districts, an agriculture official said Saturday, in the first such outbreak to be recorded so close to the Russian capital.
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Health and veterinary workers in Bangladesh have culled nearly 25,000 fowls after bird flu was confirmed at three poultry farms in the country, officials said on Thursday.
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Bulgaria may reduce by two-thirds its 450-strong infantry battalion in Iraq after general elections in the Arab country due next month, a report said Sunday.
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Many infectious diseases have been eradicated in Europe but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed.
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Some animal movement limits set after the foot-and-mouth outbreak are eased, despite a seventh case being confirmed.
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The Czech Republic will offer three microbiology experts and two epidemiologists at a European conference to help Southeast Asia in the wake of the destructive tsunamis, Czech Deputy Health Minister Michael Vit ...
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PITTSBURG, Kan. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga., has sent three medical investigators to Crawford County to help health officials isolate the bug that is responsible for biting
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Indonesia claimed a major victory in the fight against bird flu Thursday, saying the heart of the capital had been cleared of backyard fowl and that residents elsewhere were handing in chickens for slaughter. But poultry could still be seen roaming freely in suburban neighborhoods and some people hid pet birds in their homes, raising doubts the campaign would prevent further human deaths in the country hardest-hit by the virus.
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Rabies could be eradicated from the world within a decade, according to Edinburgh University experts.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The spread of Lyme disease and other ailments could be reduced by vaccinating wildlife, according to a new study by Yale University and three other colleges.
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While rabies kills tens of thousands of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America, it is rare in developed countries. Several West European nations have eliminated the disease with aggressive vaccination campaigns.
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Two divisions of the 2nd infantry brigade of the Macedonian Army Friday leave for ISAF 7 peacekeeping mission Afghanistan from Skopje Airport.
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The campaign, which will promote exercise and healthier diet among Virginians, aims to reduce the rate of chronic illnesses such as obesity and hypertension through diet, exercise and other prevention techniques.
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Researchers say extra vitamin E fed to turkeys appears to help control infections from listeria. People who eat foods that contain this bacteria can get listeriosis.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has dispatched staffers to southeast Kansas, in an attempt to locate the source of apparent bug bites that have plagued hundreds
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MAPHUNGWANE, Swaziland -- Men in blue coveralls and white surgical masks began their annual trek into the countryside here last week. Methodically, they sprayed one home after another with a chemical most Americans probably thought long ago disappeared from use: DDT.