Monitoring animal health must to prevent Ebola-like outbreaks: FAO

70 per cent of infectious diseases in recent decades have originated in animals

Surging bird flu cases may increase human infection risk, warn UN agencies & WOAH

Urge countries to strengthen disease surveillance and improve hygiene at poultry farms

Bhutan becomes first country to sterilise all stray dogs after 14-year-long project

New report by WHO, FAO & WOAH recommends oral rabies vaccination

Animal health body issues alert on Mizoram pig disease

Disease surfaced in March; outbreak notified as first occurrence for India

Return of bird flu in India raises alarm

No confirmation yet on whether virus is a mutant one

Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species

Within markets like the one in Wuhan, there are abundant opportunities for the type of interactions that promote pathogen transmission among species

Penguin fight: understanding animal contest behaviour in five easy steps

The battles seen in a recent viral video and the BBC's Planet Earth II documentary are just a glimpse of the contests that take place throughout …

Big push for One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO, Animal health body lay out plan

Framework will integrate systems and capacity to collectively better prevent, predict, detect and respond to health threats

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: OIE initiatives for responsible, prudent use of antimicrobials in animals in Asia-Pacific

The organisation conducted workshops to spread awareness & understand how antimicrobial use data can be shared among stakeholders

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

India has not done much to address antimicrobial resistance: Global report

A survey by FAO, OIE and WHO has found wide discrepancies in countries’ efforts toward tackling AMR

Prevention better than cure: Why World Bank bats for One Health to combat pandemics

Report finds cost of prevention a third of fighting off pandemic as pace of emerging infectious outbreaks increase

Tagged Oliver Ridleys return to Gahirmatha after a decade

Around 4.6 lakh turtles have already laid eggs at Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, while their mass nesting started in February 

Health of humans, livestock interlinked in Africa

Researchers have found a strong link between the number of illnesses among family members in a particular household and the number of livestock …

Not just groundwater, flouride has poisoned agricultural soil, crops in Bengal

Farmers in Bankura and Purulia rely on groundwater, heavily contaminated with flouride, to cultivate crops  

New report flags use of antibiotics on animals

Out of 155 countries, 45 acknowledged using antibiotics on animals, says report by World Organisation for Animal Health; wake up call for India

Countries vow to wipe out sheep and goat plague globally by 2030

The deadly animal disease causes a loss of US $2billion annually and has put livelihood of millions of poor at risk in 70 countries of Asia and Africa

One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH launch research agenda for antimicrobial resistance

Interface addresses global health issues necessitating multisectoral, multidisciplinary response to AMR

International bodies like WHO, FAO join hands at CITES COP19 to curb zoonotic diseases

Zoonoses defined as infectious diseases spread between animals and humans by food, water, fomites or vectors