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09 March 2018
Over 4,700 veterinary professionals in 25 countries trained in just one year
05 March 2018
  “One Health” is a collaborative effort of health practitioners (veterinarians, MDs, public health officers, epidemiologists, ecologists, toxicologists, environmentalists and others), and their related agencies to achieve optimal health levels for the community, agriculture and livestock, wildlife and the environment. One Health works on local, national and global scales. Boyolali District has...
03 March 2018
In preventing and controlling recurring and cross-sectoral zoonotic diseases and Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID), the ‘One Health’ approach forms the basis of the strategy and acts as the framework for planning EID communication. This is what the Director General of Livestock and Animal Health Services, Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) represented...
21 February 2018
  A decline in chicken egg production has hit commercial poultry farmers all over Indonesia. Many of them claim that the decline in egg laying has reached over 40%. They suspect that this condition is caused by H9N2 Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI) and Inclusion Body Hepatitis (IBH) outbreaks, which have...
12 February 2018
  Tulus Hadi Wardoyo (67) was busy counting the cash from the sale of chickens that day. As an elder of the Terban Market Poultry Traders Community, Yogyakarta, he understands that healthy and disease-free- chickens will bring profit to the sellers like him. “The trade in chickens sold in this market is...