Bluetongue virus, an incurable cattle and sheep-killing disease, is spread by tiny flies once thought to disappear in winter. New research demonstrates that though they are harder to find when it's ...

A strain of the bluetongue virus has been confirmed in a sheep in Cornwall for the first time in 17 years. The Animal and ...

Sheep farmers in Wales are being urged to act after the Wales Veterinary Science Centre warned about the threat of 'iceberg diseases,' based ...

Ernie Etchart’s family has raised sheep in the San Juan mountains for more than 70 years, taking the herd of thousands every summer to the green, open meadows of the high country to graze. But the ...

Part 1. General medicine -- 1. Clinical examination and making a diagnosis -- 2. General systemic states -- 3. Diseases of the newborn -- 4. Practical antimicrobial therapeutics -- 5. Diseases of the ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark reported Tuesday cases of bluetongue in the country’s east, a non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease that is harmless to humans but can be fatal for so-called ...

GREENSBORO, Vt. (AP) -- Federal officials on Wednesday seized a flock of sheep feared infected with a version of mad cow disease, the first such seizure of any U.S. farm animals. ``USDA has no choice ...

Wildlife officials from Idaho, Washington and Oregon are monitoring a new outbreak of pneumonia that is killing wild bighorn sheep in the northern end of Hells Canyon. Preliminary data indicates the ...

For the second time in three years, a pneumonia outbreak in a Yakima-area bighorn sheep herd is prompting the state wildlife department to kill some or perhaps even all the diseased sheep to prevent ...

GREENSBORO, Vt. - Federal agents seized a Vermont farmer's flock of 234 sheep Wednesday for fear they are infected with a version of mad cow disease - the first such action ever taken against ...

Advocates say feds left them ‘high and dry.’ What is Colorado doing to protect iconic species? COLORADO SPRINGS – The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the ...