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White Paper on antimicrobials in animal farming
10 March 2016 | Position Papers
TAFS publishes White Paper "Usage of antimicrobials in animal farming -- What we know about the risks and what we should know".
Available for download here.
Detection of MaP ... collected from elderly slaughter cows ... by Münster et al.
09 January 2012 | Technical news (commented)Münster et al. report finding about 17% of a random sample of German cattle MaP positive.
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Schmallenberg virus causing ruminant disease in Germany and The Netherlands
27 December 2011 | Technical news (commented)A new virus has been detected in Germany and The Netherlands and is suspected to be the cause of disease and abortions in cattle and sheep. The virus has been called Schmallenberg virus (SBV) preliminarily, after the German city where the identified strain was sampled. The risk for humans seems to be low, but significant uncertainties exist.
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