Peste des petits ruminants is an endemic disease of sheep and goats in Nigeria and vaccination has been the method of control but sporadic outbreaks have been reported. This study was carried out to characterize PPR viruses from outbreaks in 2007 and 2009 from Kaduna and Plateau States.
On Tuesday in a ceremony in Rome, the United Nations is officially declaring that for only the second time in history, a disease has been wiped off the face of the earth.
Everyone has heard of smallpox. Very few have heard of the runner-up.
Scientists are using high-tech gene sequencing machines in a desperate attempt to save the Tasmanian devil from an infectious cancer called devil facial tumor disease that is threatening to wipe out the species.
"The disease is like nothing we know in humans or in virtually any other animal.
Malda, June 17: A bird flu scare in three villages in the Englishbazar area following the death of hundreds of chickens in the past few days was allayed today after veterinarians confirmed that the poultry was dying from Ranikhet disease that does not affect humans.
All birds had been culled on a war footing in the area in 2008 and the following year when the locality was hit by the avian flu v
Swine flu has returned to Maharashtra with the disease claiming a life in Nashik even as four persons have been reported positive in the state last week.
Shama Kushalkar (29) died due to swine flu at the Nashik Civil hospital on May 26, two days after she was admitted there. Of the four persons who have been reported positive three are from Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad while one is from Nashik.
The emergence and rapid global spread of the swine-origin H1N1/09 pandemic influenza A virus in humans underscores the importance of swine populations as reservoirs for genetically diverse influenza viruses with the potential to infect humans. However, despite their significance for animal and human health, relatively little is known about the phylogeography of swine influenza viruses in the United States.
Veterinary authorities of Sri Lanka warn that the spreading deaths of birds in certain areas threaten the fauna life in bird sanctuaries of national wildlife parks.
Veterinary scientists say that mass deaths of birds have been reported from Colombo and Kalutara districts.
The bodies of 16 seagulls have been recovered in the Colombo and Puttalam areas, and the carcasses have been sent for exa
White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
Diminishing populations of bats, an important predator of insects, could have harmful consequences for humans, experts say.
Bats at two sites in Maine's Oxford County that displayed sign
