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Animal Diseases : University of Nebraska - Articles on specific livestock diseases.
Anthrax - Clinical signs that can be found in sheep goats cattle and humans. Includes treatments that are described.
Brucellosis Fact Sheet - Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that can be passed from animals such as cows sheep and goats to humans.
Cheesy Gland - Causes spread symptoms and prevention of CLA in sheep and goats.
Illini Biosecurity Website - Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy University of Illinois Extension and Illinois TRAILL's information on biosecurity and livestock diseases that are in the news.
Johne's disease - Information about bovine (cattle) and ovine (goat) Johne's disease and its control in New South Wales.
Johne's Disease or Paratuberculosis - Origin diagnosis and eradication.
Prion Diseases - Information about scrapie and other diseases in which a protein is the infective agent.
Q Fever Pages - Links to information about Q fever a bacterial zoonosis disease capable of being transmitted from animals to people caused by coxiella burnetii a rickettsial organism.
Rift Valley Fever - A mosquito-borne viral disease leading to serious economic losses in livestock particularly sheep. Transmission symptoms related links.
Screw-worm Fly - Serious threat to pastoral industries occurs in almost all tropical countries except Australia. Its life cycle and potential impact on cattle sheep dogs and humans are described.