The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission last week added three more counties in Western Kentucky to the state's chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance area following the detection of CWD in a ...

Foodborne illnesses are a significant public health concern worldwide, with parasitic infections being a major contributor to this burden. Meat consumption is a common practice in many cultures, with ...

A previous report in this journal described seven cases of Hashimoto’s encephalopathy (HE) clinically resembling Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).1 Brain biopsies in such cases are rare and have ...

1 Introduction Bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) is the biggest endemic cause of morbidity and mortality in growing cattle in production systems worldwide (1). It results in significant demand ...

Several other prion diseases have been described in farmed and wild animals: scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic wasting disease in deer and other cervids, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and ...

An informative write-up about vaccine requirements, some diseases prevalent in the United Kingdom and general health tips; useful for travelers to the country.

U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients and will delay analysis of long-term trends.