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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease researchers have increasingly sought to understand the role racial and sociodemographic factors play in disease spread to help identify who might be more vulnerable to infection. A new study led by the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used machine […]

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It’s hard to be a horse. It’s especially hard to be a newborn foal, dropped into a world of microbes and bacteria with your sole initial defense against devastating infections being the antibodies you get from your mother’s milk, or colostrum. Researchers at North Carolina State University wanted to learn whether a biomarker that correlates […]

While Spider-Man may have developed superhuman abilities from a spider bite, our pets are not likely to start slinging webs or crawling up the walls if bitten by an arachnid.  Spiders tend to be active in late summer and early fall, leading to more unwanted encounters for our curious pets.  Dr. Lance Wheeler, a clinical […]

Some veterinary trainees sprint through their years of veterinary school, eager to clear the classroom and leave didactic learning behind. Dr. Cody Atkinson is not one of those people. After completing a small animal internal medicine internship at NC State last summer, Atkinson chose to stay at the College of Veterinary Medicine for at least five […]

After three weeks of testing as required under a voluntary state monitoring program for bird flu in dairy cattle, animal health experts in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences announced that the University’s dairy herd has been certified as free of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI.

New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights Subtitle Center Draws from Health, Engineering, Agriculture, Social Sciences to Advance Pandemic Science for Emerging Threats Rob Warren August 22, 2024 Kat Kerlin From left, Sarah Lagattuta, Janna Freeman, and Christine Kreuder Johnson of UC Davis One Health Institute set up to record video and audio data of wildlife […]

You toss your sheets in the washer, run your dishes through the dishwasher and scrub the toilet, but when was the last time you laundered the dog bed, washed your pets’ food and water bowls and disinfected the cat litter box?

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