Understanding the OIE’s Role in Disease Prevention
Michelle Anderson
February 2, 2013
The World Organization for Animal Health?s (OIE) standards help prevent the spread of infectious disease.
The World Organization for Animal Health?s (OIE) standards help prevent the spread of infectious disease.
Authorities are encouraging horse owners to vaccinate annually to curb the impact of African horse sickness.
The document discusses control strategies should the disease ever be found in Great Britain.
The African Horse Sickness (England) Regulations 2012 were signed on Oct. 15 and will take effect Nov. 21.
Countries can now request a recognition status for African horse sickness from the OIE.
Three horses from Swaziland are dead after contracting African horse sickness, according to an OIE report.
Disease control in developing countries must be cost-effective, practical, and acceptable to livestock owners.
The International Collating Center, Newmarket, United Kingdom, and other sources reported the following
The number of equine deaths caused by African horse sickness (AHS) in South Africa’s Western Cape has risen to 24, according to a report from the South African-based news website Eye Witness News. Authorities announced March 28 that in the previous
Twelve cases of African horse sickness (AHS) have been confirmed in the Western Cape region of South Africa, according to a report from the South African-based news website Eye Witness News. The cases in the Western Cape follow an outbreak of more
More than 90 cases of African horse sickness (AHS) have been confirmed in South Africa this year and more than 50 horses have succumbed to the disease, according to a report from the South Africa-based news website Cape Times. The outbreak has
A year-round guide to what’s available for assisting veterinary professionals.
Nearly 2,200 equids have died in an outbreak of African horse sickness in the country of Ethiopia, according to a report released by the Office International des Epizooties
In 1968 the U.S. Surgeon General proclaimed that the war on infectious diseases had been won. Unfortunately, this statement was not true. Ongoing outbreaks of disease in humans and animals worldwide have established repeatedly that the war on
The risks and dangers of African horse sickness (AHS) are spelt out in a new leaflet from The Horse Trust and The British Horse Society.
Horse Trust Chief Executive Paul Jepson announced the availability of the new materials today at the
African horse sickness (AHS) has struck close to 300 horses in South Africa so far this year, killing approximately half of them and prompting an embargo on horse transports in Western Cape. The area on equine lockdown includes the country’s
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