What first looked like a potentially devastating condition in a rescue kitten turned out to be something far less dire: a treatable abscess rather than the more feared diagnosis some animal lovers ...

Undetectable diseases are hard to cure. You can’t look at a pen of feedyard cattle and know which ones have liver abscesses. Even technologies like ultrasound or blood tests don’t uncover it. “It’s ...

An animal rights group wants the government to investigate how an elephant allegedly received a “large abscess” while traveling with a circus that is set to perform in the Butte Civic Center Thursday.