China Animal Healthcare , the Hong Kong–based manufacturer and distributor of livestock and poultry medicines for the Chinese market, has acquired a swine vaccine business. The company says that subsidiary Shenzhou Pagina-Kang Technology Co has agreed to buy Jianxiang Hemu from its four ...

The efficacy and economic costs of different strategies to fight a possible epidemic of foot and mouth disease in the Netherlands have been analyzed in a report by the Wageningen University and Research Centre. According to the document, in areas with a high farm density emergency vaccination of ...

Plans to cull male sheep and goats to control Q-fever in the Netherlands have met with opposition from members of the Dutch Lower House. Ministers have put forward a motion to reverse the decision, made by agriculture minister Gerda Verburg and health minister Ab Klink this week. Until now, only ...

The efficacy and economic costs of different strategies to fight a possible epidemic of foot and mouth disease in the Netherlands have been analyzed in a report by the Wageningen University and Research Centre. According to the document, in areas with a high farm density emergency vaccination of ...

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Metacam (meloxicam) 5 mg/ml injectable solution has gained an EU-wide marketing authorization for use as an analgesic to relieve post-operative pain associated with the castration of piglets. The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug is now the first product licensed for this ...

China Animal Healthcare , the Hong Kong–based manufacturer and distributor of livestock and poultry medicines for the Chinese market, has acquired a swine vaccine business. The company says that subsidiary Shenzhou Pagina-Kang Technology Co has agreed to buy Jianxiang Hemu from its four ...

India has undertaken a large-scale cull of poultry in the state of West Bengal following an outbreak of avian influenza there earlier this month (Animal Pharm 677, p180). The government said that 107,517 birds had been culled as of January 26th, while 10,189 eggs had been destroyed as part of the ...

The conditions in which fish are farmed may be the reason infections such as columnaris disease are becoming increasingly virulent, as aquaculture creates selective pressures that encourage the most lethal strains of disease to thrive. That is the conclusion of a 23-year study conducted at a fish ...

Cargill Animal Nutrition has opened its sixth feed mill in Vietnam. The plant is located in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, and is designed to have an annual capacity of 60,000 tons of aquaculture feed, giving Cargill-Vietnam a total production capacity of 720,000 metric tons per year, ...

Eco Animal Health is to market its antibiotic, Aivlosin (tylvalosin), as a treatment for respiratory disease in farmed pheasants, after receiveing a positive opinion from the European scientific committee for veterinary medicines, the CVMP. The opinion will allow the UK-based company to market ...

Chronic wasting disease (CSW) can spread among deer through prions excreted in the feces, a study has found. Infected animals shed the proteins many months before they develop clinical symptoms. The findings, published online by the journal Nature earlier this month, suggest a possible explanation ...