Calves under one year of age are more susceptible than older cattle. Older cattle frequently have been exposed to the parasites and developed a degree of immunity. Adult worms in the gut of cattle ...

Squeezed from the skin of a stonefish, a recently discovered toxin shows enormous promise, according to researchers in Far ...

Parasites are becoming resistant to common livestock medications; strategic treatment and monitoring might be the better way ...

Cattle and hogs higher early Monday ... Instead the market latched on to the weekend headline about New World Screw worm detected in a Mexican cow and border restrictions that followed.

Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue ...

Research into roundworms that cause disease in livestock has improved the targeted control of these parasites, resulting in healthier animals and economic benefits for farmers. Gastrointestinal ...