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Animal Diseases : University of Nebraska: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, founded in 1869, is one if the nation's premier land-grant institutions. UNL is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Doctoral/Research University-Extensive.

Anthrax: Clinical signs that can be found in sheep, goats, cattle and humans. Includes treatments that are described.

Brucellosis Fact Sheet: Fact sheet with symptoms and information about brucellosis

Cheesy Gland: Causes, spread, symptoms, and prevention of CLA in sheep and goats.

Illini Biosecurity Website: Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy University of Illinois Extension and Illinois TRAILL's information on biosecurity and livestock diseases that are in the news. These diseases include Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy (BSE), Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Johnes.

Johne's disease: Information about bovine (cattle) and ovine (goat) Johne's disease and its control in New South Wales.

Johne's Disease or Paratuberculosis: MU Extension, University of Missouri

Prion Diseases: Information about scrapie and other diseases in which a protein is the infective agent.

Q Fever Pages: Links to information about Q fever, a bacterial zoonosis, disease capable of being transmitted from animals to people caused by coxiella burnetii, a rickettsial organism.

Rift Valley Fever: A mosquito-borne viral disease leading to serious economic losses in livestock, particularly sheep. Transmission, symptoms, related links.

Screw-worm Fly: Serious threat to pastoral industries, occurs in almost all tropical countries except Australia. Its life cycle and potential impact on cattle, sheep, dogs and humans are described.