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
'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
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, …
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
Why save the rooster?
In 1996, about 14,000 million tonnes of meat came from the chicken alone. Rare indigenous breeds are extremely hardy and provide more protein and …
‘Insatiable demand from the East, greed & lack of political will is enabling poaching across Africa’
Wildlife veterinarian Dave Cooper talks about poaching, effect of climate change and his experience with conservation
Herbs to heal cattle
In the absence of veterinary services, traditional medical practices for treating livestock remain popular in tribal villages
Droopy dead
New findings suggest the vulture might be falling prey to an infectious disease. The scientific community is not yet certain if the vulture's …
Clucking in alarm
poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the …
From the frying-pan to fire
Sweden may be trying hard to control the phenomenon of acid rain, but the end result is another crisis at hand - a dwindling Population of the moose
Burden of beast
Mounting economic pressures cast a dark shadow on the future of camels and their traditional breeders in Rajasthan
Ebola unleashed
The deadly virus had long confined itself to the backwoods of Africa. Increasing deforestation has led to its frequent emergence as epidemics
When flu turns fatal
In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease which is only as threatening as seasonal flu. Jyotsna …
India’s mysterious diseases: ‘We need a public health system’
Human health management is dismally low in India, says T Jacob John, virologist and former professor at Christian Medical College, Vellore
Migration reduces transmission of pathogens between species: UN Report
The migration behaviours of several species is changing because of man-made factors like climate change and habitat loss
Cockpit
In early December 2007, the country prided itself on providing the world with a road map to check the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5NI.…
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, …