National Animal Identification and Tracing (Nait), a computerised system to trace New Zealand's livestock through the international marketplace, will become operational from July 1

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are collaborating to combat foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on a global scale

With the Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) also known as ‘blue ear disease’ recording an upward trend, more and more people are contracting a bacterium virus called ‘Streptococcus Suis’ from pigs in northern Vietnam

Indonesia is planning to produce more than 50,000 units of bird flu vaccine to ensure that it is well prepared in case a pandemic occurs and to assist foreign countries as well

An outbreak of the highly epidemic H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry has been reported in north-west China