The Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) Rule, which took effect in March 2013, establishes minimum national official identification and documentation…

The AVMA actively seeks continued adequate Congressional funding for the upgrading, maintenance, operation, or rebuilding of the United States'…

The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded over $14 million to more than 70 projects aimed at protecting U.S.…

All animal disease control and eradication programs should be under the direction and supervision of

To protect public health, animal health, and food production, it is essential that all veterinarians are adequately prepared to recognize foreign…

Uniform and standardized approaches to formulating and implementing state, national and international regulations optimizing the health of aquatic…

The AVMA strongly advocates for and supports the securing and maintaining of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Section 18 exemptions

Animal disease has emerged as one of the most important factors hindering the development of aquaculture worldwide

The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians has published the Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated

Posted on February 15, 2003   For the third time, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health…

To protect animal, human, and environmental health, the AVMA supports the use of appropriate surveillance and control measures on international…

Plans to release genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys should benefit humans and may also benefit animals.

Federal animal health authorities published a plan to monitor for disease emergence and draw up plans for the biggest risks.

The AVMA endorses 2017 Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings promulgated by the NASPHV

Animal health groups issue resolution on livestock and wildlife diseases

Formal title: Docket Number [APHIS-2010-0050] Animal Traceability; Notice of Public Meetings Brief Description: The United States Department of…

A training course in foreign animal diseases will be available at the University of Wisconsin's School of Veterinary Medicine.

Farmed aquatic animals (aquatic livestock or aquaculture) is now a $1 billion industry in the U.S. and affects the agriculture economy of every state.…

Avian influenza, agroterrorism, and livestock biosecurity will be key discussion topics at the Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases

Dr. Elizabeth A. Lautner has been appointed the new director of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center

The challenges of using mice for infectious disease research are minor when compared with studies involving large animals.

Dr. W. Ron DeHaven, AVMA CEO, has said that a mandatory animal identification system could save millions of animals

Senate passes bill to form animal disease task forceResearchers, regulators continue battle against BSE and other TSE …

Investigators spent an average of 199 days tracing the sources of animals infected with bovine tuberculosis between October 2005 and

The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a directive Jan. 26 providing public health veterinarians