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“There are very few pathogens that infect chimpanzees without infecting humans and very few pathogens that infect humans without infecting chimpanzees,” said Tony Goldberg, one of the authors of the paper and a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of epidemiology. The post As World Reels from Coronavirus, UW Researchers Report on Chimpanzee-Killing Disease, Raising Concerns about Jump to […]

Johne’s is contagious and can be transferred animal to animal within a species or from one ruminant to another such as a cow to a sheep.

Sixty-three Aggies from across the Texas A&M University campus competed in the fourth annual Aggies Invent: VetMed competition hosted by the Colleges of Engineering and Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS). Aggies Invent: VetMed is a 48-hour intensive design experience for which students in multidisciplinary teams work to create technological strategies and solutions to improve […]

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, three Black students in the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) at the University of Guelph have launched Canadian VIBE, a national non-profit organization for fostering diversity in veterinary medicine. VIBE, or Veterinary professionals Instilling Black Excellence, was registered as a non-profit organization last summer and has…

Chimpanzees had been dying mysteriously at the Tacugama sanctuary in Sierra Leone for a decade or so by 2016 when Tony Goldberg set to work on figuring out why. The sanctuary staff, veterinarians and biologists had conducted several investigations into the disease over the years. It was not contagious, did not infect humans, did not appear at […]

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s Brian Gilger has been honored with a Gold Fellowship from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the world’s largest ocular research organization. Gilger, a professor of ophthalmology at the CVM, is just the second-ever veterinarian to receive the Gold Fellowship, ARVO’s highest member honor. “Through ARVO, […]

An associate dean and wildlife veterinarian from Cummings School shares her story as a participant in a clinical trial for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Florina Tseng is the Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Climate and professor of wildlife medicine at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Since last fall, she has been one of 30,000 people […]

To commemorate Black History Month, the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine remembers the late Drs. Rodye Butler and Dorsey McGruder and their many contributions to their communities and the veterinary medical profession.

The first volunteers have been selected for a vaccine trial of COVAC-2, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Vaccine and infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask).

  By Sarah Carey Pets use their mouths in much the same way humans use their hands̰ — to explore the world. University of Florida veterinarians say a great way to start the new year off right is by ensuring that your animals have the healthiest mouths possible. Routine dental care may not come to […]