In the winter of 2001, acrid plumes of smoke rose from the British countryside as millions of cows, sheep and pigs were incinerated in a desperate war against foot-and-mouth disease. "If foot-and-mouth disease were to enter anywhere in Australia, all of Australia's market access for all products of beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, goats and pigs would be lost," he …
A virus that can leave piglets stillborn and horses with anorexia has been detected in southern Australia for the first time. Key points: JEV is a mosquito-borne viral disease that mostly occurs in pigs and horses, but can cause disease in people and rarely in other animals Animals and people become infected through the bite of infected mosquitoes It cannot …