Sentence examples for devastating livestock from inspiring English sources

Because of its rapid spread and impact on animal productivity, FMD is considered to be the most economically devastating livestock disease in the world.

By using TREC-IN to manipulate metabolic pathways, pathogenic and virulence factors may be studied with relative ease; thereby facilitating better vaccine design against some of the economically devastating livestock diseases such as contagious bovine pleuropneumonia caused by mycoplasmas [ 25].

Crops have been devastated, livestock killed off, bore holes dug and evaporated, and residents forced to scavenge for wild fruit and vegetables.

Eleven people were wounded in the attack, which came as residents in much of northwestern Pakistan were struggling to recover from severe floods that killed at least 800 people, displaced as many as 1.4 million and devastated livestock herds.

Exotic animals often carry parasites and pathogens that can devastate livestock, native wildlife and humans, and many scientists contend that government surveillance and quarantine procedures for most imports are inadequate.

After independence in 1960 its progress was stymied by political instability and a five-year drought, which devastated livestock and crops.

In April, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas did just that, saying the "misguided" mandate was devastating the livestock industry in Texas.

But other Asian countries, like South Korea and Taiwan do export, and foot-and-mouth disease has devastated their livestock industries.

PAGE 31 Niger's Nomads Suffer The famine in Niger has devastated its livestock, bringing huge suffering to the country's legendary nomads and threatening their centuries-old way of life.

But the inspections have drawn resources from other activities, like using radiation to sterilize tsetse flies, which have devastated African livestock, or encouraging the use of radiation therapy on cancer patients in poor countries.

Drought has wiped out approximately eighty per cent of Somali livestock — devastating for a country made up primarily of nomadic herders.