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4 Ways to Help Producers Prevent ‘Milk Fever’ and Minimize Cow Culling

Garrett Oetzel, University of Wisconsin professor and dairy veterinarian, reports that SCH is associated with an increased risk for metritis, post-partum fever, post-fresh BHBA (beta-hydroxybutyrate acid) and longer median days open, 124 versus 109 days. The post 4 Ways to Help Producers Prevent ‘Milk Fever’ and Minimize Cow Culling appeared first on School of Veterinary […]

UW Study: Latest COVID-19 Strain May Not Be More Pathogenic

The researchers led by UW’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka pointed out that the earlier study used a virus with spike proteins from both BA.1 and BA.2 viruses, with Kawaoka adding, “when we used authentic virus, we found that BA.2 is not more pathogenic.” The post UW Study: Latest COVID-19 Strain May Not Be More Pathogenic appeared first […]

Snow-Covered Tires Help Invasive Mosquitoes Survive Cold Winters

In a new study published this month in Environmental Entomology, Katie Susong, Lyric Bartholomay, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tested if insulated car tire microhabitats could increase survival of Aedes albopictus in the northern Midwest of the U.S. and if snow cover further increased survival by providing additional insulation. The post Snow-Covered Tires Help Invasive Mosquitoes […]

NC State Veterinary Medicine News and Updates, May 2022

In the Spotlight CVM Class of 2022 Celebrates Hard-Earned Oath & Hooding Moment When members of the Class of 2022 showed up for the first day of classes, little did they know that a global pandemic would turn their path to a degree in veterinary medicine upside down.  Having endured COVID testing, distance learning, social […]

Memorial service set for Dr. Nicholas Booth, former dean

Dr. Nicholas Booth, 98, passed away on March 28, 2022. He began teaching at Colorado State (then called Colorado A&M) in 1947, and was dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from 1966 to 1971. Dr. Nicholas Booth monitors a pig’s vital signs in the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, circa 1949. (Photo […]

Snow goose treated for lead toxicity at Cornell

Friday, May 27, 2022 – 9:32am Each spring, large flocks of snow geese make their annual trek from the south back up to their Arctic breeding grounds. One goose’s journey was interrupted, however, by an increasingly common threat to wildlife — lead toxicity. This led to the ivory-feathered waterfowl coming to Cornell’s Janet L. Swanson […]

In the News: World Equestrian Center

The University of Florida Veterinary Hospital at the WEC. The World Equestrian Center, appropriately located in the Horse Capital of the World, now has a new home for cats, dogs and other animals. The new University of Florida Veterinary Hospital was officially unveiled in Ocala on Wednesday with a ribbon cutting, the culmination of a […]