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APHIS To Require Electronic Animal ID for Certain Cattle and Bison
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has taken another step toward limiting the impact of an outbreak of foreign animal diseases by amending and strengthening its animal ...
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Bird flu fears as 18 states place restrictions on cow movement to prevent spread of virus
according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said it will not be issuing federal ...
Experts sound the alarm as Ohio farmworker’s bird flu sparks fear it’s the next pandemic
In January, APHIS confirmed that an H5N1 variant not previously ... accelerate bird flu vaccine development. In addition, the CDC has already prepared what it calls candidate vaccine viruses ...
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Mississippi chicken flock tests positive for bird flu. What are the symptoms? What we know
According to information from the CDC, infected birds spread bird flu through ... and confirmed at the APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa." Bird flu has been found ...