Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology

Atlanta-Forty-one horses are under quarantine in northern Georgia following exposure to equine infectious anemia, reports Tommy Irvin, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner.

Baton Rouge, La.-A bovine virus not originally suspected to cause respiratory tract infections in cattle is now associated with outbreaks of shipping fever pneumonia, researchers at Louisiana State University report.

New York-Researchers studying human lung cancer have recently learned how a sheep cancer virus attaches to cells, and believe this knowledge could lead to a new way to deliver gene therapy to human lungs.