The nine deaths happened in a short space of time in Sinoe county. The Liberian authorities have ruled out Ebola as the cause of the deaths of nine people from a mystery illness in the south-east of...
A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens on what to do as they investigate the illness. The BBC reports that the Chief...
US health authorities on Monday studied the remains of a dead bat discovered inside a prepackaged salad mix sold in Florida for possible traces of the deadly rabies virus. The Fresh Express company,...
Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to contain further outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu. The latest...
Now that Ghana has two Veterinary Medical Schools to train Veterinary Surgeons, one may perhaps have hopes that this will herald the new era of solving the problem of inadequate veterinary surgeons....
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
Facing pressure from environmentalists and shareholder activists, major US food companies and restaurant chains are moving to limit antibiotics in farm animals raised for meat. Last month, Tyson...
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against Ebola, which has wiped out tens of thousands of the wild apes in three decades....
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Health (MoH), has discredited rumours of an Ebola outbreak in the country. An audio clip circulating on various social media platforms, suggested...
The Ghana Health Service has debunked information circulating on social media, suggesting that there is an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Ghana. A statement signed by the Acting Director...
Salome Karwah fought past civil war and a deadly virus. But in Liberia, becoming a mother is too often a killer. By the time she was 26, Salome Karwah had defied death at least three times. She had...
The World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the drug-resistant bacteria that pose the biggest threat to human health. Top of the list are gram-negative bugs, such as E. coli, which can cause...
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013, killing 79 people in January alone and spurring several cities to suspend live...
One person has died and two others have been stricken by an outbreak of leptospirosis - a rare bacterial infection commonly spread by rat urine. New York City health officials have identified the...
Ghanaian veterinary officers are unhappy with the failure of some countries within the West African sub-region to enforce the ban on slaughtering of donkeys. They are calling for an immediate...
Fourteen (14) people have died of rabies at Gomoa Budumburam in the Central Region. The figure could be higher according to residents in the area as several others have also been bitten by the rabies...
The UK's chief veterinary officer said there is no need to panic as food safety is not at risk Britain on Friday announced the discovery of a highly contagious strain of bird flu at a turkey farm,...
About 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as the authorities try to prevent the spread of bird flu across northern European countries. The slaughter involved six farms, following the...
The Ghana Health Service has a assured it has put in place a strong surveillance system to prevent outbreak of dengue fever. According to the Service, qualified persons have been trained to be on...
More than 4,000 chickens have died since the outbreak of the Newcastle disease in Namibia early July this year. The disease that was first detected at Etunda in the north of the country about 760...
