Excessive heat will once again blast much of the United States next week, with heat indices predicted to reach 110 degrees ...

Factory Farms Depend on Antibiotics to Raise Billions of Animals. The Food and Drug Administration data show sales of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in farm animals rose 4.3 ...

What might keep you up at night, though, is the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. About 23,000 people in the U.S., and 700,000 people globally, die each year of antibiotic ...

The US Food and Drug Administration’s 2020 report on sales of antibiotics for use in cattle, swine, and poultry—which include many classes of antibiotics also used in human medicine—shows ...

The study is based on a limited data set of veterinary-antimicrobials sales from 32 countries, all with developed economies. Before now there has been no quantitative measurement of global ...

First we need to know how and where these drugs are being used. As of 2014, only 42 countries had a system to collect data on the use of antimicrobial treatments in animal husbandry. A newly ...

I’ve written previously about the need for better surveillance of emerging infectious diseases. Emerging pathogens are not unique to people, however. Animal diseases, especially diseases of ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware are looking into what causes that gut feeling in livestock animals such as cows and chickens. Ryan Arsenault, assistant professor in the Department of Animal ...

Wildlife Services is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and it specializes in killing wild animals that threaten livestock—especially predators such as coyotes, wolves ...

The US Food and Drug Administration’s 2020 report on sales of antibiotics for use in cattle, swine, and poultry—which include many classes of antibiotics also used in human medicine—shows ...