Queensland, Western Australian and Northern Territory biosecurity authorities are participating in a three-day exercise in Darwin simulating a lumpy skin disease outbreak in Australian cattle.

Earlier this week officials said they were hopeful the outbreak had been contained, but on Friday a cow on an adjacent farm tested positive for the disease. About 60 heads of cattle on the second farm ...

The cow showed symptoms of the deadly disease - formally known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - that ravaged Britain's cattle herds in the 1990s and led to millions of cows being ...

In a Darwin agricultural centre, biosecurity officials and pastoralists are wargaming an emergency scenario — lumpy skin disease has just been detected on a remote territory cattle station and ...

Local veterinarian Paul Erwin said the phones “started blowing up in August,” with calls about an emerging cattle disease, theileria. Erwin said the Chatham Veterinary Clinic treated three cows and ...

Hardened plaque is called tartar, and it can cause gum (periodontal) disease. Periodontal disease can cause chewing problems, loose teeth, and, in some cases, tooth loss. Several studies show that ...

The number of farms in South Korea with confirmed lumpy skin disease (LSD) infections is on the rise as the country races to vaccinate its cattle. A confirmed case at a Korean beef farm in Seosan, ...

Announced publicly in June, the Kansas-based CattleTrace pilot project is on track to begin testing a purpose-built infrastructure for cattle disease traceability by fall 2018. Cattle disease ...

IN a critical development for infectious disease experts and healthcare providers across the United States, a new study confirms the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in dairy ...

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Beijing | Reuters — China is facing outbreaks of a debilitating virus in cattle that causes a condition called lumpy skin disease, following an incident on a farm in the eastern province of Zhejiang ...