Cattle Plague Declared Eradicated Scientists are declaring victory over a deadly animal disease that cattle herders around the world have dreaded for millennia. Rinderpest becomes the second disease in all of human history to be successfully eradicat...
By Tom Rivers London 08 August 2007 For the first time since the confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain earlier this month, the government has decided to ease restrictions on livestock shipments in areas outside of the affected zone in sou...
US to Destroy Hundreds of Cattle Linked to Mad Cow Infection Michael Bowman U.S. agriculture officials have announced plans to destroy hundreds of cattle linked to the first case of mad cow disease fo...