As spring season progresses, more livestock producers will be hosting various club lamb and show goat sales. As animals from different producers comingle for the first time at their new homes, the ...

The baby goat that got Steinmetz Family Farm booted from the 2024 NYS Fair didn’t have a suspected virus after all, according to the goat’s owner, Justin Steinmetz. Steinmetz last night received ...

People can contract skin lesions from goats and sheep infected with the Orf virus through household meat preparation or when slaughtering the animals, a federal agency said on Thursday in a report ...

Orf virus, a member of the Parapoxvirus genus, is the causative agent of contagious ecthyma – a zoonotic skin disease primarily affecting sheep and goats, with occasional human infections. The ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — Old MacDonald’s Farm at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids will be closed Thursday and Friday ...

Jan. 27, 2006 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in the January 27 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on risk factors for the transmission of orf virus ...

As spring season progresses, more livestock producers will be hosting various club lamb and show goat sales. As animals from different producers comingle for the first time at their new homes, the ...

A farming couple whose son spent five days in hospital after suffering a serious reaction to orf, contracted from pet lambs, says more must be done to educate medical professionals about this viral ...

Sheep farmers who have never experienced an outbreak of orf are still likely to have a number of infected ewes and lambs in their flock, according to research. The ongoing study, being carried out by ...

In April 2009, a woman aged 63 years punctured her right hand on a bone of a recently slaughtered goat near her home in Greece. She subsequently noted a small, pink and white papule at the site of ...