The AVMA encourages the USDA to continue to partner with state animal health officials, federal and state animal public health officials, the cattle…

Official ear tags on cattle and bison covered under federal regulations will need to be both visually and electronically readable for interstate…

As a fatal, infectious neurologic disease has spread in deer and elk, researchers want to make sure it can't affect humans.

Formal Title - Docket Number (APHIS-2012-0087); Interim Rule, Approved Tests for Bovine Tuberculosis in Cervids  Brief Description: With the…

Dr. Patrice Klein is a wildlife veterinarian who has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of…

As the official veterinarian of the North Pole, AVMA President Dr. Lori Teller has given Santa’s reindeer the green light to fly! You can take a peek…

The SARS-CoV-2 virus probably originated in wildlife and has been documented in more than two dozen species. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic has…

The SARS-CoV-2 virus probably originated in wildlife and has been documented in more than two dozen species. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic has…

More than two dozen states and Native American tribes received $9.4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health…

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials hope this year to publish the rules to establish requirements for timely animal disease reporting across the…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is funding more than 40 projects toward controlling the spread of…

Research teams are working to improve tests used to find the prions that cause chronic wasting disease, track animal movements and interactions…

About four in 10 wild cervids are infected with CWD in areas of Colorado, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The always-fatal prion disease also can simmer…

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Several vaccine candidates could prolong lives of animals infected with chronic wasting disease and reduce spread of the disease.

USAHA asks federal authorities to invest more to guard against livestock diseases and let veterinarians transport and use controlled

Researchers found genetic variations in deer may be associated with chronic wasting disease susceptibility.

APHIS gave priority to states and tribes in states that have detected CWD and have a CWD monitoring and control program or that propose to create a…

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Formal Title: Docket Number (00-108-8); Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program and Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk,…

>Dr. Warren J. Hess didn't think much about disaster preparedness until his mobile practice exploded, with him inside.

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The prion proteins that cause chronic wasting disease survive for years in soil and are taken up by plants.

An always-fatal neurologic disease is contributing to declines in Western deer and elk herds and raising the possibility of local extinctions.