USask researchers recently published a paper in Scientific Reports that identified a promising alternative for controlling infectious diseases such as swine dysentery. Porcine β-defensin 5, or ...

Diseases on the move By far, U.S. health officials are most worried about African swine fever, a virus that first originated in 1921 but has since reemerged in various countries worldwide.

Scientists have developed a long-acting injectable treatment combining levodopa and carbidopa, the two medications used to ...

Everybody wants to find a diamond in the rough, but no one wants their pig to develop diamond skin disease—an infection that can cause pain and discomfort and may lead to death if left untreated.

After years of trying, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is again seeking to withdraw approval of an antibiotic that is widely used by farmers to control diarrhea in their pigs.

Vaccines against African swine fever being tested in Vietnam are close to approval, global and US veterinary officials said, in what would be a major breakthrough to tackle the deadly animal ...

Italy has culled at least 40,000 animals in response to African swine fever, often in opposition to animal activists. The country could do well with exploring other solutions, starting with vaccines.

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and elsewhere have identified several novel strains of swine flu viruses circulating in Cambodian pigs that pose a potential pandemic risk. The new strains ...

Breakfast of failures? California gastroenterologist Dr. Saurabh Sethi has taken to TikTok to call out the five unhealthiest breakfast foods. We’ve long been told that breakfast is the most important ...

The CDC has reported the first human case of swine flu in the U.S. in 2024. There's no evidence of the infection spreading between people.

An electron micrograph of an African swine fever virus particle. [Kati Franzke, Friedrich Loeffler Institute] Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut ...

As the bird flu outbreak continues to spread among poultry, cows and people, experts discuss the possible need for a bird flu vaccine and if we already have one.