What challenges are we facing today to make the transition towards sustainable livestock production possible? On current trends, it is clear is that we need to pr...

The United Nations forecasts that the population of the world will reach 9.8 billion by 2050. Many experts are concerned about the earth’s ability to feed so many pe...

Bovine digital dermatitis (DD) is a painful, infectious claw disorder that causes ulcerative lesions mainly at the coronary band of the hind legs of dairy cows and l...

Outbreaks of emerging zoonotic diseases have increased in the past decade and have affected the population worldwide. Often the blame for such spillover events is pu...

The European Union (EU) aims to eliminate fox-mediated rabies from its territory by 2020. At first sight, this seems a rather ambitious goal considering that this ho...

Despite remarkable advances in human and veterinary medicine over the past century, infectious diseases remain an important cause of morbidity and mortality for both...