Livestock diseases
Feds: Man used fraudulent PPP loan to buy alpaca farm

May. 04, 2021 11:57 AM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The owner of a Massachusetts pizza parlor lied about the number of employees he had to fraudulently obtain more than $660,000 in federal...

Arkansas makes food plant workers eligible for vaccine

Mar. 02, 2021 03:33 PM EST
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Workers at Arkansas' poultry plants and other food manufacturing facilities are now eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Asa...

This undated photo provided by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in July 2020 shows an adult male pygmy hog in India. Pygmy hogs - the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig - are under a lockdown because of the first outbreak of African Swine Fever in India. There is neither a vaccine nor cure for the highly contagious viral disease that has already killed over 16,000 domestic pigs, said Pradip Gogoi, an official at Assam’s animal husbandry wing. (Parag Deka/Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust via AP)
Virus lockdown for world’s smallest and rarest wild pigs

By Aniruddha Ghosal Aug. 06, 2020 01:10 AM EDT

State bracing for high number of mosquito-borne virus cases

By Philip Marcelo Jul. 07, 2020 12:41 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts officials on Tuesday said they're bracing for another summer with a high number of cases of eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but...

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2006, file photo, a car passes in front of a Tyson Foods Inc., sign at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark. China's decision to ban imports from a single Tyson Foods poultry plant because of concerns about a coronavirus outbreak there puzzled many in the meat industry and raised concerns about whether this could threaten a major market for U.S. meat. The action China's customs agency took against the Tyson plant in Springdale, Arkansas, could have major implications for the meat industry if it were expanded because dozens of beef, pork and poultry plants have had outbreaks of the coronavirus among their workers.(AP Photo/April L. Brown, File)
US meat industry puzzled by China's import ban for 1 plant

By Josh Funk Jun. 22, 2020 11:54 PM EDT

Hundreds test positive at Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas

By Tamara Lush Jun. 21, 2020 02:08 PM EDT
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China's customs agency has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United...

This image taken from a May 19, 2020, video provided by Direct Action Everywhere, shows workers in Grundy County, Iowa, walking among carcasses and using bolt guns to kill pigs that remain alive after they had been exposed to heat in an effort to euthanize the animals. Meatpacking plants that had to close due to coronavirus outbreaks have been running for weeks, but production backlogs are forcing farmers to euthanize thousands of hogs that can't be processed, drawing complaints from animal welfare advocates. (Direct Action Everywhere via AP)
Slaughterhouses reopen but farmers still euthanizing pigs

By David Pitt May. 29, 2020 03:06 PM EDT

A G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center employee takes a bow to the applause from members of the Mississippi Air and Army National Guard as he walks towards the entrance, in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, May 12, 2020. The guardsmen and women honored medical personnel for their efforts in working with the coronavirus on the final day of National Nurses Week. May 12, is the birthday of Florence Nightingale, who is credited as the founder of modern nursing. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi gov tightens virus rules in 7 hard-hit counties

By Emily Wagster Pettus May. 12, 2020 06:07 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 9, 2020, file photo, a construction worker wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic as he unloads a truck standing in front of a sign reminding people to stay 6 feet apart, in downtown Miami. There's been a spike of new infections among construction workers in Austin, Texas, where that sector recently returned to work. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
As Trump urges reopening, thousands getting sick on the job

By David Crary May. 12, 2020 10:12 AM EDT

Virus outbreak prompts temporary closure at poultry plant

May. 09, 2020 06:44 PM EDT
WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) — A Tyson Foods poultry plant in North Carolina is closing temporarily for deep cleaning after a coronavirus outbreak there. ...

11 attorneys general seek probe into meat packing industry

By Roxana Hegeman May. 05, 2020 05:38 PM EDT
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The attorneys general for 11 Midwestern states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to pursue a federal investigation into market...

Virus testing launched after poultry plant outbreaks

By Brian Witte May. 01, 2020 01:15 PM EDT
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A new cornonavirus testing site has been launched at Perdue Stadium on Maryland's Eastern Shore in response to poultry plant outbreaks,...

FILE - This April 18, 2020, file photo, shows the JBS USA Pork Plant in Worthington, Minn. Officials estimate that about 700,000 pigs across the nation can't be processed each week and must euthanized. Most of the hogs are being killed at farms, but up to 13,000 a day also may be euthanized at the JBS pork plant in Worthington. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
Healthy pigs being killed as meatpacking backlog hits farms

By David Pitt May. 01, 2020 10:31 AM EDT

CORRECTS SPELLING TO PERDUE, NOT PURDUE In this photo taken with a drone, local hospital officials have reported a spike in COVID-19 cases at the Perdue poultry processing plant on the Eastern Shore Wednesday April 29, 2020, in Accomac, Va. Coronavirus cases among workers at poultry plants on Virginia's Eastern Shore have become an increasing concern for local health officials.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Maryland governor: poultry plant actions taken due to virus

By Brian Witte Apr. 29, 2020 09:31 AM EDT