Bovine Disease
An interview with Bovicoli bovis
Howdy from a deep, dark crevice of cow 4211! The smell of fall is the in air. What a relief after that long, hot summer. I cannot tell you how many relatives I lost, mostly because I cannot count, but that is beside the point.
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Dairy culling decisions
At the 2011 American Meat Institute Animal Care & Handling meeting in Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Kurt Vogel discussed reasons for dairy cattle culling and the role veterinarians can play in assisting producers in their decision-making.
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Immunocompetence of FMD-infected cattle
BioMed Central has available a new paper on the immunocompetence of cattle infected with foot and mouth disease virus.
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Using 'Black Death' genetic tools for investigating cattle diseases?
An international team has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history -- could these tools be used to investigate cattle disease?
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Q fever in the Northwest
Q fever caused by Coxiella burnetii has reared its head again in 2011, this time on goat farms in Washington and Montana.
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E. coli Webinar from WSU
Washington State University will be holding a free Webinar, “E. coli updates, current perspectives on cattle, produce and human health.”
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World Rabies Day includes livestock, too
During the fifth annual World Rabies Day, on September 28, the AVMA reminds everyone that rabies in pets is 100% percent preventable through vaccinations, and it’s also an important procedure in horses and cattle.
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Foreign animal disease industry manuals
New manuals available from CFSPH for dairy and swine emergency preparedness.
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Frontline MDs, DVMs will identify disease
Like physicians and human disease, veterinarians are going to be the first to recognize – and then act – on suspected foreign animal disease situations.
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Reduce risk of trich in beef herds
Open cows and transmittable diseases are two phrases no cattleman wants to hear, but unfortunately, the spread of trichomoniasis can cause those problems.
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UC-Davis: New vaccines targeted to Rift Valley Fever
Researchers from the University of California-Davis, and elsewhere are reporting the development of two genetically engineered vaccines to combat the mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever, devastating to livestock and so far confined to Africa and the Middle East.
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