Paris, France and Whitehouse Station, NJ. – March 9, 2010 – Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) announced today that sanofi-aventis has exercised its option to combine Merial with Intervet/Schering-Plough, Merck’s ...

GREENFIELD, Ind., March 8, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), today announced that Lilly has signed an agreement to acquire the European rights to a portfolio of certain Pfizer ...

CAIRO (IRIN) - Egypt is moving to curb the spread of avian influenza (H5N1) after a recent upsurge in infections, the Egyptian Health Ministry says. The sale of poultry between any of Egypt’s 29 governorates is to be ...

Dublin (PRESS RELEASE) - The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, is pleased to announce significant progress with the National Aujeszky's Disease Control and Eradication Programme and today launches Phase 3 of the programme. The objective of this programme is to officially eliminate Aujeszky's Disease from the national ...

BOXMEER (Netherlands), January 26, 2010 – Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health today announces that it has received marketing authorization from the European Commission on January 12, 2010 for a single-shot vaccination schedule of its PORCILIS® PCV vaccine against porcine ...

BOXMEER (Netherlands), January 13, 2010 – Treatment of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) in cattle with a combination preparation consisting of the anti-infective drug florfenicol and the anti-inflammatory drug flunixin meglumine (RESFLOR® Solution for Injection), results in control of bacterial growth, reduction of fever and reduction of lung consolidation. This conclusion ...

BOXMEER (the Netherlands), October 8, 2009 — Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health today announced that it has initiated a multy-year sponsorship project, supporting the Shire Highlands Milk Producers Association (SHMPA) in Malawi, a developing country in southeast Africa. The primary objective of the project is to support smallholder dairy farmers in the ...

(aho) - One of the problems facing swine veterinarians and producers when they try to control Haemophilus parasuis (Glässer’s disease) infection is the ‘immunity gap’, as European Technical Director Swine for Pfizer Animal Health, Jens Christian Jensen explains: “In herds that have a problem with ...

London (DEFRA) - BSE has been diagnosed in a Hereford X Cow, born on 16 July 2002, 71 months after 1 August 1996, when extra control measures on animal feed containing mammalian meat and bone meal (MMBM) are considered to have been fully implemented. The animal ...

London (DEFRA) - Movements of fish in and out of a fishery in East Sussex have been restricted, following the confirmation of Koi Herpesvirus (KHV) Disease. Defra has issued a Designated Area Order prohibiting the movement of fish to and from Moor Hall Pools ...

Washington (NPPC) - Saying that they are a necessary tool to protect animal and public health, the National Pork Producers Council at a congressional hearing held today urged lawmakers not to restrict the use of antibiotics in pork production. Testifying on behalf of NPPC, Dr. Craig Rowles, a veterinarian and partner ...

Hannover (DLG) - The International DLG Exhibition for animal husbandry and management, EuroTier 2008, being held at the Exhibition Grounds in Hanover from 11 to 14 November 2008, has exerted a hitherto unequalled attraction on manufacturers of machinery, equipment, installations and farm inputs as well as animal exhibitors from Germany ...

(FDA) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, today released for public comment draft guidance on the regulation of genetically engineered (GE) animals. The guidance document is intended to clarify the FDA's regulatory authority in this field, as well as the ...

Washington (NPPC) - An undercover video shot by the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shows on an Iowa farm mistreatment of hogs, including practices not condoned and, in fact, abhorred by America’s pork producers. The National Pork Producers Council condemns the mistreatment of animals that took ...

KENILWORTH, N.J., September 10, 2008 – Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) today announced the successful closing of its previously announced transaction with Pfizer Animal Health, to divest certain animal health products from selected franchises in the European Economic Area to Pfizer. These divestments were requested by the European Commission as part ...

O0ndon (DEFRA) - Defra today announced the detection of Bluetongue in 18 imported cattle on premises near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. The animals originated from within the BTV8 Restricted Zone in Germany and were detected as a result of post-import testing carried out by Defra on all Bluetongue susceptible ...

Boise (ISDA) – The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) Bureau of Animal Industries is investigating a confirmed detection of a low-pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAI) at a southwestern Idaho gamebird farm. It is NOT the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus that has spread through birds in Asia, Europe and Africa. ...

Washington, DC (AAM) – People with Crohn’s disease (CD) are seven-fold more likely to have in their gut tissues the bacterium that causes a digestive-tract disease in cattle called Johne’s disease. The role this bacterium may or may not play in causing CD is a ...

Vancouver, Canada (OIE) - Some 3000 participants attended the 29 th World Veterinary Congress which took place this year in Vancouver ( Canada ) from 27-31 July 2008. World renowned scientists in animal production, animal health and welfare gathered at this major event along with rural and urban veterinary practitioners, ...

Brussels (EFSA) - The European Commission asked the Animal Health and Welfare Panel (AHAW) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to deliver advice on bluetongue with specific reference to the overwintering of the bluetongue virus and the measures that can be used to ...