Veterinary medicine
Fear Grips Liberians As Mystery Disease Claims 9 Lives
A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens...
Dead Bat Found In Florida Prepackaged Salad
US health authorities on Monday studied the remains of a dead bat discovered inside a prepackaged salad mix sold in...
Japan Culls 280,000 More Birds For Avian Flu
Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to...
House Officers Everywhere, But No Posting
Now that Ghana has two Veterinary Medical Schools to train Veterinary Surgeons, one may perhaps have hopes that this...
UN Urges China To Act As Bird Flu Deaths Spike
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has...
Antibiotic-Free Meat Gets A Foothold In US
Facing pressure from environmentalists and shareholder activists, major US food companies and restaurant chains are...
Vaccine Created To Protect Ebola-Ravaged Chimps
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against...
Ghana Health Service Discredits Ebola Outbreak Rumours
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Health (MoH), has discredited rumours of an Ebola outbreak in the...
Ghana Health Service Condemns False Ebola Outbreak Report
The Ghana Health Service has debunked information circulating on social media, suggesting that there is an outbreak of...
A Woman Survives Ebola But Not Pregnancy In Africa
Salome Karwah fought past civil war and a deadly virus. But in Liberia, becoming a mother is too often a killer. By the...
World’s Most Threatening Superbugs Ranked In New List
The World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the drug-resistant bacteria that pose the biggest threat to human...
Bird-Flu Deaths Rise In China, Shutting Poultry Markets
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013,...
Leptospirosis Kills One and Strikes Two Others In New York
One person has died and two others have been stricken by an outbreak of leptospirosis - a rare bacterial infection...
Veterinaries Worried About Rate At Which Donkeys Are Killed
Ghanaian veterinary officers are unhappy with the failure of some countries within the West African sub-region to...
Dog Kills 14 Residents In Gomoa Budumburam
Fourteen (14) people have died of rabies at Gomoa Budumburam in the Central Region. The figure could be higher...
Bird Flu Hits British Turkey Farm
The UK's chief veterinary officer said there is no need to panic as food safety is not at risk Britain on Friday...
Netherlands Culls 190,000 Ducks
About 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as the authorities try to prevent the spread of bird flu across...
Surveillance In Place To Prevent Outbreak of Dengue Fever
The Ghana Health Service has a assured it has put in place a strong surveillance system to prevent outbreak of dengue...
Namibia Loses 4,000 Chickens To Newcastle Disease
More than 4,000 chickens have died since the outbreak of the Newcastle disease in Namibia early July this year. The...