BACKGROUND Listeria monocytogenes infection is most commonly recognized in ruminants, including cattle, sheep, and goats; but it is rarely diagnosed in poultry. This report describes an outbreak of L. monocytogenes in a backyard poultry flock. Also, it points out the importance of collaboration between veterinarians and public health departments and the possible implications of zoonotic disease...

BACKGROUND No country is fully prepared for a 1918-like pandemic influenza. Averting a pandemic of H5N1 influenza virus depends on the successful control of its endemicity, outbreaks in poultry and occasional spillage into human which carries a case-fatality rate of over 50%. The use of perimetric depopulation and vaccination has failed to halt the spread of the epidemic. Blanket vaccination fo...

The study analyzed the Socio-Economic Characteristics of Backyard Poultry Farming in Etsako Central Local Government Area, Edo State, Nigeria using multi-stage sampling technique to select three out six districts Area with a well structure questionnaire administered 150 randomly selected respondents while only 107 were retrieved. Data collected descriptive statistics tools. results revealed tha...

• Poultry provides a sustainable income at minimal investment as well as security against risk and is a cheap source of protein, especially for poor households in developing countries. Hence, it is important to emphasize the relationship between livelihood and poultry in designing pro-poor HPAI control strategies. • There is need for a more rigorous consideration of the links between scale of p...

To the Editor: Novel highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of subtypes H5N2, H5N8, and H5N1 have recently caused numerous outbreaks in commercial poultry farms in the United States and Canada (1). Risk for zoonotic transmission is low; humans are affected primarily from the extensive economic repercussions of suspending poultry-farming activities (1). Large-scale research is under wa...

De Sá S.G., Pinheiro Junior J.W., Vilela S.M.O., Moraes E.P.B.X., Albuquerque P.P.F., Porto W.J.N., Ferreira D.R.A. & Mota R.A. 2015. Occurrence and risk factors assessment associated with Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) infection in chickens in the semiarid region of Pernambuco, Brazil. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 35(6):531535. Laboratório de Doenças Infecto-Contagiosas dos Animais Doméstico...