The Minister of Agriculture has expressed urgent concerns regarding the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in KwaZulu-Natal, ...

The Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, requested the Department of Agriculture to urgently give attention to the ...

The Department of Agriculture has confirmed new positive cases of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in livestock in the Newcastle and Bergville areas of KwaZulu-Natal. The outbreak has been traced to an ...

Amid a multi-year surge in vaccine misinformation sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic, social media posts claimed that the ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

Viral diseases in domestic ruminants such as cattle, goats, and sheep represent a major threat to livestock industries worldwide, leading to significant ...

Just when the waves of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreaks appeared to have calmed down in Central Europe, Hungary reported another outbreak on a cattle farm. The outbreak occurred on a cattle farm ...