Social distancing as well as proper cleaning, disinfection, and ventilation measures can help prevent and control COVID-19 infection.

Hospital-acquired infections are an ongoing battle for health care facilities in both human and veterinary medicine.

Dr. Pantaleon presented three sessions on biosecurity—and infection control—during a daylong track at the annual meeting of the

An infection control guide sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance is intended to reduce risks of pathogen

An outbreak of monkeypox demonstrated the need for veterinarians to be protected from the inherent risk that zoonotic diseases pose

The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the AVMA are collaborating on a joint project titled Survey of

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had released reports of Salmonella outbreak investigations from 2014

The AVMA endorses the 2017 Compendium of Measures to Control Chlamydophila psittaci Infections Among Humans (Psittacosis) and Pet Birds (Avian…

In July, pets in Arizona, California, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin became the most recent confirmed positive…

A National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases study identified a link between severe illness and co-infection with Sarcocystis

A bat-associated rabies virus variant that spread among northern Arizona's terrestrial wildlife in previous years was not

Lingering cases connected with wildlife exposure New federal rules for responding to brucellosis outbreaks are intended

At least one pig at the Minnesota State Fair contracted the 2009 Novel H1N1 influenza virus. The U.S. Department of Agriculture

Lessons from tuberculosis eradication attempts could improve bovine viral diarrhea virus control programs.

The Commodity Credit Corporation has transferred $5.4 million to the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health

Veterinarians and other experts meet to discuss public perception, reality of FMD

Veterinarians who work with birds are at an increased risk for avian influenza infection and should be among those with priority

Federal agriculture authorities found no threat to human health from a California cow discovered in April to have been infected

A 13-year-old neutered male, mixed-breed dog in Bedford Hills, N.Y., has tested positive for the 2009 novel H1N1 influenza virus,

Food safety is not improving as quickly as hoped, and recent outbreaks of illness involved produce contaminated with pathogens

About 1.4 million chickens were killed in a mass depopulation to control the spread of a viral upper respiratory tract infection

The U.S. swine industry loses millions of dollars as a result of bacterial infections in these vulnerable, young animals.

The Companion Animal Parasite Council has issued new guidelines relevant to Lyme disease and regional parasitic diseases in

The opportunity for disease to pass from animal to human occurs daily around the globe in everyday activities.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization have launched an