USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.
Iowa agriculture officials say a majority of the quarantine zones set up around poultry farms infected with bird flu are being lifted. When bird flu was confirmed on a farm, a six-mile zone ...
The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...
H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...
Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced plans to implement a tiered strategy this month to increase testing ...
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag ...