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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Bulgaria has reported an outbreak of bluetongue disease on a sheep farm in the south of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Monday, the latest ...

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 ...

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 ...