How can you protect yourself from listeria in food? [Video]

2024-01-17T16:37:34+01:00June 6th 2023|Communication & Media, Food safety|

Listeria monocytogenes is a relatively ubiquitous species of bacteria that can contaminate food at any level of the production to consumption chain. One distinctive characteristic ...

CONNETTI-CAT: analysing the circulation of bat-associated lyssaviruses in owned cats

2023-12-05T09:56:49+01:00May 23rd 2023|Rabies, Research & Projects|

The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) has launched a research project entitled CONNETTI-CAT (RC IZSVe 07/22) designed to assess exposure to lyssaviruses in owned ...

Successful testing of DNA vaccines against viral diseases of rainbow trout

2023-05-23T10:30:39+02:00April 12th 2023|Fish, crustacean and mollusc pathology, Research & Projects|

Italy is one of Europe’s leading producers of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). However, farming is severely limited by the impact of two viral diseases: Viral ...

EFSA, ECDC, EURL: ongoing avian influenza outbreaks in birds, low risk to the public

2023-03-13T12:07:25+01:00March 13th 2023|Avian influenza & Newcastle disease, Monitoring & Prevention|

The situation regarding avian influenza continues to evolve in Europe and globally, with new outbreaks reported in birds and occasional infections in mammals. Sporadic human ...

How are veterinary epidemic emergencies managed? [Video]

2023-01-30T14:49:17+01:00March 7th 2023|Avian influenza & Newcastle disease, Communication & Media, Diseases at the animal/human Interface, Rabies|

Infectious diseases are pathologies caused by microbial agents that can be transmitted from one host to another. An epidemic occurs when a disease spreads very ...

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