An 18-month-old female spaniel died after being infected with the Aujeszky’s disease virus, transmitted by a wild boar wounded during a hunting expedition. This is the first fat...
02/20/2019Outbreaks & Epidemiology
In 2013, previously undetected H7N9 influenza viruses began circulating among poultry in China. Initially low pathogenic, these viruses subsequently evolved and caused several o...
10/30/2017First detected in Turkey in late 2013, lumpy skin disease continues to spread throughout Europe and beyond, with a sharp increase in incidence despite the control measures imple...
10/06/2017The prevalence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the European Union is approximately 1,250 cases over ten years of surveillance, out of some 73 million cattle tested....
07/20/2017In birds, an initial infection with influenza A provides strong protection against subsequent infections with other subtypes of the influenza virus—whether homologous or heterol...
07/05/2017Outbreaks of canine influenza A have been detected in several U.S. states, initially in the southeastern part of the country, first affecting Georgia and Florida, before spreadi...
06/08/2017