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

Two recent drug approvals mean a novel treatment for the control of canine osteoarthritis (OA) pain and an oral vaccine against the wildlife spread of…

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

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…

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

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

Dogs in much of the U.S. likely will be at greater risk of heartworm, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, and anaplasmosis this year as vectors and parasites…

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

Lingering cases connected with wildlife exposure

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

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has granted a conditional license for the Canine Parvovirus Monoclonal Antibody—Elanco's first monoclonal antibody…

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

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

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…

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

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