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 ...
Butox 7.5 pour-on, an ectoparasiticide for cattle and sheep made by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health (I/SPAH), remains effective when the animals are exposed to rain, according to recently published research.
The product, which contains the synthetic pyrethroid deltamethrin, is applied ...
Merial and Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health have announced new product launches in Japan.
Merial Japan has introduced its cattle wormer, Eprinex (eprinomectin), via distributor Nippon Zenyaku Kogyo. The product controls internal parasites including roundworms and lung worm as well as external ...
The United Kingdom lags the rest of Europe in its approach to Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD), warns an expert on the disease at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) . There is not even a consistent approach across the UK, he adds. Professor Joe Brownlie
, who leads the RVC the research group on BVD, ...
