DHAKA: While Anthrax has already spread in many districts of Bangladesh, forcing the authorities issue a red alert, the government is hoping the disease will not turn into an epidemic.
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) confirmed on Thursday that 447 people in eight districts had been infected with anthrax in the last three weeks.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday held rallies across Karnataka demanding early presidential nod to a bill banning cow slaughter in the state.
The bill, passed by both the houses of the state legislature, has been sent by Governor H.R.
Even as the minorities and Dalit fora took out a torchlight protest to condemn the State Government's move to effect Anti-Cow Slaughter Act, the Institute of Leather Industries Lidkar Suppliers has also criticised the move saying it would render people in leather business, jobless.
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In a press meet on Wednesday, Vijaykumar, secretary of the Institute said that lakhs of families are
A study was conducted on 440 dairy cattle in six organized dairy farms in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India using tuberculin skin testing (TST) to determine the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis. An overall animal prevalence of 14.31% (63 of 440 animals) and a farm prevalence of 16.67% (1 of 6 farms) were recorded in 6 dairy farms by the TST.Of the six dairy farms studied, one of the farms showed prevalence of 34.42% (63/183).
