Veterinary News

• Dairy Veterinarians Highlight Need For Improved Methods For Detecting Mastitis
  Fri, 31 October 2008
  Current methods for detecting and diagnosing mastitis in dairy cows are not serving the needs of dairy producers well, according to a survey of leading dairy veterinarians conducted at the recent annual meeting of the American Association o ...
• Animal Testing - MEP Wants Law Changed, Duplicate Experiments Mean Too Many Animals Suff ...
  Fri, 31 October 2008
  Plaid MEP Jill Evans (Wales) believes a twenty year old European law on animal testing is in urgent need of updating because it allows too many animals to suffer unnecessarily. The MEP says many experiments are being duplicated, leading to animal suffering that could be avoided. The MEP wants the European Commission to e ...
• South Carolina Child Potentially Exposed To Rabies Infected Bat
  Fri, 31 October 2008
  A Dillon child who was potentially exposed to rabies by a bat is under the care of a physician after the bat tested positive for rabies, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today. The little girl was potentially exposed while she was at asleep in her home, said Sue Ferguson of DHEC's Bureau of ...
• Study Rules Out Inbreeding As Cause Of Amphibian Deformities
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  Although research has linked inbreeding with elevated rates of deformity in a wide variety of animals, a new study finds it plays no part in the high incidence of malformation among salamanders. Purdue University researchers recently examined 2,000 adult and juvenile salamanders and found that 8 percent had visible deformi ...
• EFSA Identifies Risk Factors For Salmonella Infections In Turkey Flocks In The EU
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  EFSA's Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection has today published an analysis of risk factors related to Salmonella in flocks of turkeys within the European Union (EU). The document will serve as a scientific basis to assist Member States in defining the best control measures for reaching the new Salmonella reduction target ...
• Long-term Reciprocity Of Grooming In Wild West African Chimpanzees
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  Humans are well known for their ability to exchange helpful acts, and keep track of social favours over long periods of time. However, there is ongoing debate over whether non-human primates can keep track of previous interactions and, if so, if they can do it long term, or are constrained to finalize exchanges within a sing ...
• Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Of Mammals: Evolution And Life History
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  The discovery that new neurons are born in the adult mammalian brain has raised hopes that selective stimulation of the formation of new neurons, i.e. neurogenesis, might improve cognitive abilities in disabled or healthy humans. Although neurogenesis has been studied extensively in laboratory rodents, a clearly defined ...
• New Treatment Method For Canine Eye Diseases Developed By Iowa State Researcher
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  An Iowa State University researcher is exploring a new method of getting medicine to the eyes of infected dogs that is more effective and reliable than using eye drops. Dr. Sinisa Grozdanic, an assistant professor of veterinary clinical sciences at Iowa State's College of Veterinary Medicine, is working with a drug manufa ...
• Interactions Among Co-infecting Parasite Species: A Mechanism Maintaining Genetic Variat ...
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  Animals are often infected by several parasite species. If the co-infecting parasites interact, this can alter the disease dynamics by increasing or decreasing the infection success. Interactions between strains of fish eye flukes, however, show high variation between different strain combinations of co-infecting parasites ...
• Study Confirms Amphibians' Ability To Predict Changes In Biodiversity
  Thu, 30 October 2008
  Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change. Now two University of California biologists have verified the predictive power of this sens ...