Animal Health

Scammers are advertising FMD vaccines for sale on social media, but no private individual in South Africa is legally allowed...

Hormones play a key role in an animal’s growth and development, influencing everything from frame size to muscle production and...

Authorised companies and individuals will now be able to procure foot-and-mouth disease vaccines directly from accredited international manufacturers, following a...

Ticks are among the most significant disease vectors affecting livestock in southern Africa, posing a constant threat to animal health,...

Scabby mouth, known as vuilbek in Afrikaans or orf, is a viral condition causing warts on the lips of lambs...

Oxpeckers are more than just familiar birds on the backs of cattle and game – they are an important part of natural...

Pigeons, swallows and even rats can act as “bridge hosts”, carrying highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) from water bodies shared...

Cloudy or grey eyes in livestock are a common sign of infectious conjunctivitis – a contagious bacterial infection caused by...

South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, has announced a landmark policy shift allowing poultry producers to vaccinate against highly...

South Africa's recent FMD vaccination campaign has uncovered a startling truth: communal and smallholder farmers may own far more cattle...