'Social distancing' in sheep could cure flock of maedi visna

A collaboration between scientists in Scotland and The Netherlands has found that a lack of ‘social distancing’ between sheep is almost exclusively responsible for the spread of the virus that causes the chronic viral disease

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'Social distancing' in sheep could cure flock of maedi visna

A collaboration between scientists in Scotland and The Netherlands has found that a lack of ‘social distancing' between sheep is almost exclusively responsible for the spread of the virus that causes the...

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