A health ministry official in Bangkok said recently that anthrax-hit Thailand will closely monitor a similar outbreak of the disease in Australia before banning the entry of beef and dairy imports

The king of all animals in the Serengati game reserve, Tanzania, is facing annihilation. Lions in the game reserve are dying in hundreds from canine distemper disease they contracted from pet dogs,

The mad cow controversy has raised its ugly head once again. An as yet unpublished study conducted by British government scientists says that hundreds of Britons are likely to die every year

beef is bad, really. All speculations can now be put to rest with the confirmation through a study that eating a

in a bid to restore consumer confidence, shaken to core due to the mad cow

the controversial rabbit calicivirus will be let loose on purpose in Australia, end of September, to decimate the rabbit population which has caused havoc in the island continent. Amidst fears

Many African econo

Even as the mad cow mayhem in Europe has begun subsiding, another animal disease row is simmering in this country. Hog cholera is threatening Taiwan's US $43 billion pork industry as

Mad cows on net The newest site where the mad cow disease has struck is the Web. The research group CAB International hassetupahomepage at http://www.cabi.org/whatsnew/bse