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  • Potential for reduced methane from cows

    Potential for reduced methane from cows

    An international team of scientists has shown it is possible to breed cattle to reduce their methane emissions. Published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers showed that the genetics of an individual cow strongly influenced the make-up of the microorganisms in its rumen (the first st...
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  • Poisonous grasses and livestock

    Poisonous grasses and livestock

    Stories of mass poisoning incidents of livestock due to toxic grasses made headlines especially overseas. Animal ecologists  have studied whether this hazard is also lurking on German pastures. “Dangerous Pastures: Deadly Grass Puts Horses at Risk” — Such dire warnings on the we...
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  • Native bighorn sheep herds retain migratory diversity

    Native bighorn sheep herds retain migratory diversity

    On the surface, bighorn sheep migration is like that of many other large mammals, moving to higher elevations as snow melts in the springtime then returning to lower ground to forage as winter sets in. But a study published this month by Montana State University researchers has delved deeper, fin...
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  • New vaccine will stop the spread of bovine TB

    New vaccine will stop the spread of bovine TB

    cientists at the University of Surrey have developed a novel vaccine and complementary skin test to protect cattle against bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB). Publishing their findings in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers reveal they have for the first time created a vaccine that is compat...
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  • New insight into bacterial infections found in the noses of healthy cattle

    New insight into bacterial infections found in the noses of healthy cattle

    New research led by academics at the University of Bristol Veterinary and Medical Schools used the ‘One Health’ approach to study three bacterial species in the noses of young cattle and found the carriage of the bacteria was surprisingly different. The findings which combined ideas a...
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  • Immune response against Toxocara roundworms helps explain disease

    Immune response against Toxocara roundworms helps explain disease

    Neurotoxocarosis (NT) occurs in humans when larvae of the Toxocara roundworm migrate into the central nervous system. That infection is accompanied by a complex molecular signaling cascade, including changes to anti-inflammatory lipid molecules, researchers now report in PLOS Neglected Tropical D...
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  • Horse nutrition Prebiotics may do more harm than good

    Horse nutrition Prebiotics may do more harm than good

    Prebiotics are only able to help stabilise the intestinal flora of horses to a limited degree. Before they can reach the intestines, commercially available supplements partially break down in the animals’ stomachs, which can lead to inflammation of the stomach lining. This was discovered by...
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  • Sero-prevalence and community awareness on the risks associated with Livestock and Human brucellosis in selected districts of Fafan Zone of Ethiopian-Somali National Regional State

    Abstract A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the sero-prevalence, potential risk factors for transmission and spread of brucellosis in livestock and human in Jigjiga and Gursum Woredas of Fafan Zone in Ethiopian-Somali. Two Kebeles were purposively selected from each Worada based o...
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  • Changing climate may affect animal-to-human disease transfer

    Changing climate may affect animal-to-human disease transfer

    Climate change could affect occurrences of diseases like bird-flu and Ebola, with environmental factors playing a larger role than previously understood in animal-to-human disease transfer. Researchers from The University of Queensland and Swansea University have been looking at how different env...
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  • Mechanism of a protein upon infection of the ‘Fasciola hepatica’

    Mechanism of a protein upon infection of the ‘Fasciola hepatica’

    Fasciola hepatica is a parasite that causes on average 3.2 million in losses in the agricultural sector every year worldwide. It is a two-centimeter-long worm at adult size that mainly affects ruminants by means of water or raw vegetables that act as vehicles of infection. Moveover, in developing...
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  • Buying and selling cattle can link individual farms to thousands of others per purchase

    Buying and selling cattle can link individual farms to thousands of others per purchase

    Understanding the complex networks of “contact chains” between British farms, could help identify potential routes for spread of infections and improve disease control strategies for the cattle industry. A pioneering new study, led by veterinary researcher Helen Fielding from the Univ...
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  • Researchers control cattle microbiomes to reduce methane and greenhouse gases

    Researchers control cattle microbiomes to reduce methane and greenhouse gases

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have learned to control the microbiome of cattle for the first time which could inhibit their methane production, and therefore reduce a major source of greenhouse gasses. The findings from Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi’s findings were published r...
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  • New experimental vaccine for African swine fever virus shows promise

    New experimental vaccine for African swine fever virus shows promise

    Government and academic investigators have developed a vaccine against African swine fever that appears to be far more effective than previously developed vaccines. The research appears this week in the Journal of Virology, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. Currently, there ...
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  • Laminitis research to help save horses and ponies

    Laminitis research to help save horses and ponies

    Laminitis — a complex, common and often devastating disease — is the second biggest killer of domestic horses. Now a body of important research on it has been compiled and shared online for equine vets and others to access. As knowledge of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment ...
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  • Lame sheep adjust their behavior to cope with their condition

    Lame sheep adjust their behavior to cope with their condition

    In the first study of its kind, published today in the Journal of the Royal Society Open Science, a team of experts from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University have been able to demonstrate the automated detection of lameness in sheep when standing, lying and walking, usi...
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  • Livestock disease risk tied to herd management style

    Livestock disease risk tied to herd management style

    A new study provides an updated picture of the prevalence of the sheep and goat plague virus (PPRV), a widespread and often fatal disease that threatens 80 percent of the world’s sheep and goats, in northern Tanzania. According to the research team, livestock managed in a system where they ...
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  • Genetic outcomes of translocating bighorn sheep

    Genetic outcomes of translocating bighorn sheep

    Translocation is an important management tool used for nearly 100 years to increase bighorn sheep population numbers in Wyoming and to restore herds to suitable habitat throughout their historical range. Yet, translocation also can alter the underlying genetic diversity of managed wildlife specie...
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  • Herd immunity: Disease transmission from wildlife to livestock

    Transmission of diseases from wildlife to livestock is a common threat in Alberta, according to new research by University of Alberta biologists. Foothills in the southwestern part of the province are home to wild elk as well as cattle on ranchlands — and when the species intermingle, the p...
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  • Tetracycline residue levels in cattle meat from Nairobi salughter house in Kenya

    Two hundred and fifty beef samples were collected from five slaughterhouses in and around the city of Nairobi. The beef animals were sourced from various parts of the country. Samples of 50-100 grams were collected randomly from the liver, kidney and muscle of different beef carcasses. The sample...
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  • Lack of bioequivalence of two oxytetracycline formulations in the rabbit

    ABSTRACT Oxytetracycline (OTC) has been used for over 40 years in veterinary medical field. Various forms of oxytetracycline preparations have been marketed, but little information is available on the bioequivalence of OTC preparations. This study was conducted to evaluate the bioequivalence of t...
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  • Deadly bacterial infection in pigs deciphered

    Deadly bacterial infection in pigs deciphered

    New-born piglets often die painfully from infection with an intestinal bacterium. A team of researchers from 3 faculties at the University of Bern has now discovered how the bacterium causes fatal intestinal bleeding. They have thus made a breakthrough in veterinary research. Promising prospects ...
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  • ‘Invisible,’ restricted horse racing therapy may leave a trail

    ‘Invisible,’ restricted horse racing therapy may leave a trail

    A treatment called extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is used in patients both human and equine to speed healing of injured tendons and ligaments. Using high-pressure sonic waves, ESWT is thought to increase blood flow to the treated area and has been shown to reduce pain over the short term...
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  • Wild animals’ immune systems decline with age, sheep study finds

    Wild animals’ immune systems decline with age, sheep study finds

    It is well established that weakened immune systems in old age affect people’s health and fitness, but a study suggests that it is also an issue for wild animals. Researchers studying wild Soay sheep on the remote St Kilda archipelago have revealed that the animals’ immune responses t...
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  • Stand out from the herd How cows communicate through their lives

    Stand out from the herd How cows communicate through their lives

    Farmers might finally be able to answer the question: How now brown cow? Research at the University of Sydney has shown that cows maintain individual voices in a variety of emotional situations. Cows ‘talk’ to one another and retain individual identity through their lowing. Studying a...
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