TheDairySite Latest News: Botswana
07 March 2017

BOTSWANA - Small stock farmers in Tutume and surrounding villages have been advised to monitor the health of their livestock....
19 July 2016

ANALYSIS - Botswana acceded to Zimbabwe’s request to suspend a policy that was going to see the former’s security agents shooting to kill all cattle straying to their territory from the latter, writes Ian Nkala....
25 August 2015

BOTSWANA – Ten of thousands of cattle are being vaccinated in northern Botswana to counter a foot and mouth outbreak still spreading across cattle stations....
18 August 2015

BOTSWANA - Further outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease have been discovered in Botswana, on cattle farms adjacent to an earlier outbreak....
07 August 2015

BOTSWANA - Cattle in Botswana's Ngamiland region are suffering from more outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease....
04 August 2015

BOTSWANA - There were 79 cases of Foot and Mouth disease on a farm in Botswana last month....
03 July 2015

BOTSWANA - A new outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease has been found in cattle in northern Botswana....
25 November 2014

BOTSWANA – Over 43,000 cattle vaccinations have been administered in northern Botswana after a Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak, caused by contact with wild animals, flared up last month....
19 November 2014

BOTSWANA – A major vaccination project has been rolled out through north west Botswana following the foot and mouth disease outbreak last month....
31 October 2014

BOTSWANA – Foot and mouth disease (FMD) has been confirmed in 30 cattle in a large communal herd in northern Botswana after routine vaccinations were missed....
28 August 2014

BOTSWANA – Authorities have confirmed symptoms observed on a sheep farm in February as being Bluetongue virus....
28 July 2014

BOTSWANA - The country's veterinary authorities have reported that ing vaccination of cattle around the foot and mouth disease outbreak is continuing....
30 June 2014

BOTSWANA - Foot and Mouth Disease has been found in herd of routinely vaccinated cattle in the north of the country....
21 May 2014

BOTSWANA – A further 150,000 cattle have been vaccinated in an attempt to spare the Botswana cattle industry from foot and mouth disease (FMD) caused by Buffalo....
23 December 2013

BOTSWANA - The country's veterinary authorities have reported another outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Ngamiland affecting cattle in communal grazing areas....
27 March 2013

BOTSWANA – Eleven cases of FMD disease have been confirmed in Impala and Greater Kudu species in the Francistown region, according to reports from the World Organisation for Animal Health. ...
26 March 2013

BOTSWANA – Eleven cases of FMD disease have been confirmed in Impala and Greater Kudu species in the Francistown region, according to reports from the World Organisation for Animal Health. ...
13 June 2012

BOTSWANA - Botswana's veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a farm in Maun, affecting cattle and sheep/goats....
26 September 2011

BOTSWANA - An outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) has been reported to the OIE by Dr Kgoseitsile Phillemon-Motsu, Director, Department of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture , Gaborone, Botswana....
11 July 2011

BOTSWANA - An outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Botswana has forced the country's government to export more than 20,000 head of cattle from infected zones to Zimbabwe for direct slaughter and to donate 600,000 doses to vaccinate the Zimbabwean...
07 June 2011

BOTSWANA - The country's veterinary authorities have reported yet another outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a village in Francistown, the country's second largest city, where cattle were reportedly affected....
05 May 2011

BOTSWANA - A new outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease hase been reported in Botswana. ...
20 April 2011

BOTSWANA - Botswana reports that it has managed to contain foot and outh disease outbreaks in the country. ...
09 March 2011

BOTSWANA - The country's veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in cattle in the Maun region....
13 October 2010

BOTSWANA - The country's veterinary authorities have reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that cattle have been vaccinated against foot and mouth disease in the administrative division of Kasane....
15 September 2010

BOTSWANA - Botswana's veterinary experts have vaccinated cattle herds against foot and mouth disease....
02 September 2010

BOTSWANA - Back in June, there was an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Botswana's goat, sheep and cattle populations....
09 August 2010

BOTSWANA - Botswana's veterinary specialists have reported a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the country....