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 transmission among…

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

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

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

A pet ferret in Florida developed an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in September, becoming the first of its species with a known natural…

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

When veterinarians dispense controlled substances to clients, the clients have few legal methods to dispose of any remaining

The National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America, in partnership with Virox Technologies, has launched The Infection Prevention Leader…

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

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

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

Federal agriculture authorities found no threat to human health from a California cow discovered in April to have been infected with an atypical form…

Results of a recent study suggest people with COVID-19 produce a scent that is identifiable by trained detection dogs.

Scientists need to intensify their research into the use of vaccination to control an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

Lingering cases connected with wildlife exposure

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

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

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

Fungal infections that have killed porpoises and dolphins in the Pacific Northwest may be linked to nearby human activities such as construction and…

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

AVMA provides definitions for treatment, prevention, and control in the context of antimicrobial use in individual animals or populations of animals.