What do Ebola, rabies and bovine tuberculosis have in common? The answer is that they are all zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that originate in one species and then spillover into another. The ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the surrounding environment than by testing individual ...

Blood sampling in laboratory animals encompasses a range of methods designed to balance data quality with animal welfare. Techniques include peripheral puncture of superficial veins (such as the ...

From replacement selection to BRD resilience, tissue sampling units provide a fast, clean and reliable path to the genomic ...

A primatologist has developed an app that allows accurate logging of animal behaviour for scientific research. A primatologist at the University of Kent has developed an app that allows accurate ...

The number of Cryptosporidium outbreaks involving an agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) increased in 2023. The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) assisted ...

A group of livestock farmers gathered on Wednesday outside a livestock unitin Yeri to protest the planned collection of animal samples by the veterinary services, amid rising tensions over containment ...