Hangul conservation takes backseat in Kashmir

The state has barely 200 Hanguls or Kashmiri Red Stags left, but it does not seem to be alarming enough for the government, whose conservation …

Foot in mouth disease

Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot-and-mouth disease

Meat for thought

A method used to slaughter cattle may spread mad cow disease

Death by disease

Understanding the bug

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Vultures on death row

Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India

No more deaths recorded after bird flu outbreak: monitoring committee report

The committee was appointed to oversee disease control after over 70 birds died in Delhi and Gwalior zoos

Deadly livestock disease continues to spread across world

Georgia recently reported its first-ever case of ovine rinderpest, also known as ovine rinderpest, while a new outbreak has occurred in the Maldives

Royal deaths

Was the real killer an infection or negligence?

'Ebola is the result of environmental degradation'

Peter Hotez is the co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases that provides access to essential medicines for millions of …

A cattle crisis

The food-and-mouth disease spreads panic across the world and raises several questions about livestock culling

African swine fever: Forgotten contagion

Viruses, it seems, are at war with life forms. While the world is struggling with the novel coronavirus, another one has been killing pigs, …

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On a wing and a prayer

Vulture revival projects give hope

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Global madness

The whole world is at risk of the mad cow disease, says WHO

Avian havoc

Bird flu cases soaring in Vietnam

Antimicrobial Resistance: New CSE report focuses on major ethnoveterinary medicine programme  

AMR has been recognised as a ‘silent pandemic’ and is a global public health threat today  

Resistant to fluorosis

Camels are less susceptible to the medical condition than other animals, including humans

Goodbye Dolly

Both her birth and death stirred a raging debate. Dolly -- the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell -- was put to death on February 14, …

The ill effects

Warming climate spawns disease epidemics

National action plan on antimicrobial resistance urges multi-sectoral initiative

Antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, is a global public health threat, as antibiotics and antimicrobials are becoming …

Utterly bovine

UK researchers claim the Mad Cow disease is caused by Indian animal feed imports; India rubbishes hypothesis

The phoenix act

Indian vulture populations stabilise after six years of ban on diclofenac; scientists still wary

An urge to act

Will the new animal welfare Act balance interests of animals and humans?