Understanding disease transmission routes and implications for biosecurity is critical to mitigating livestock disease outbreaks and maintaining efficient and profitable production. The goal of biosecurity is to eliminate pathogen exposure and minimize endemic pathogen impact, particularly important for foreign animal ...

Surface tension allows some spiders (and other insects) to walk on water and raindrops to coalesce into beautiful patterns on a surface. But when it comes to animal feed, surface tension has a much less attractive effect – keeping water at the surface of the feed particle where it can threaten the safety, nutritional v ...