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Zimba is a 7-year-old African lion who lives at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. He came to the CSU James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital because he wasn’t eating well and seemed to have a pain in his neck. Dr. Miranda Sadar of the hospital’s Avian, Exotic, and Zoological Medicine service oversaw his […]

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Dr. Ivan Rusyn A team of researchers led by Dr. Ivan Rusyn, a University Professor in the Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS) department at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS), has found that some energy drinks have adverse effects on human cardiomyocyte-like cells, or the muscle cells of the heart. In […]

Monday, February 8, 2021 – 8:57am goodall cropped.JPG Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE and UN Messenger of Peace, will be a special guest speaker at the event. Photo provided On February 23 at 9 a.m. – noon EST, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) will co-host a live virtual event focused on preventing future […]

Terrence Clark’s respite is filled with prairie grass and young oak trees and bordered by 57-year-old pines that now tower along his property line in the town of Cottage Grove. The view to the east gives his homing pigeons plenty of open space to flock and provides Clark breaks from his Madison company that since […]

Wisconsin is not, however, contemplating a Denmark-style moratorium on mink farming or industry-wide cull, according to state veterinarian Darlene Konkle. That is a last resort. Wisconsin has yet to find a mink-to-human leap of the virus. And since mink aren’t officially considered livestock, Wisconsin doesn’t compensate farmers whose mink are killed to prevent disease spread, she […]

But as some experts put it, defining doggie ancestry can be tricky. “To a large degree, the accuracy of breed composition tests very likely depends on the degree to which a dog is ‘mixed,’” Lauren Baker and Susannah Sample, both of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in an email […]

Hundreds of volunteers, including many Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff, are part of the Medical Reserve Corps in the New River Valley and are serving at COVID-19 testing and vaccine sites.

Pandemic protocols and procedures are rapidly evolving as we learn more about getting the spread of COVID-19 under control. One new tool to help us track those infected with COVID-19 may be COVID-sniffing dogs. David Dorman, professor of toxicology in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, sat down […]

UC Davis-led Study Investigates Distribution of the Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome Allele in Multiple Breeds Rob Warren February 04, 2021 by Amy Young New research has reported the warmblood fragile foal syndrome (WFFS) allele in 21 breeds. The study, an international collaboration led by UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory Director Rebecca Bellone, screened more than […]