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Enter Online Microsoft today shipped four bulletins with patches for at least 8 documented security vulnerabilities affecting Windows users and warned that “consistent exploit code could be easily crafted” to launch attacks via the Internet Explorer browser. The Patch Tuesday batch includes fixes for a pair of code execution holes in IE, two bugs in the Microsoft Exchange Server, a remote code execution issue in the Microsoft SQL Server, and three separate flaws haunting users of Microsoft Office Visio. The Internet Explorer bulletin (MS09-002) should be treated with urgency because the flaws can be exploited to launch drive-by download attacks.
Washington, D.C. — A long-running and crucial food safety program that began shutting down due to lack of government funding has been granted a last-minute financial stay of execution, receiving emergency temporary funding from a consortium of nonprofit organizations and individual taxpayers who believe the program is too important to public health to allow to fail. The Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) received a total of $17,000 in combined donations from 12 groups and several private citizens within the animal health and food safety sectors – a stop-gap grant intended to keep the program from completely
Schaumburg, Ill. — While the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is disheartened by the initial report of alleged abuse of veterinary licenses within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) laboratories located in Ames, Iowa, it applauds the transparent and thorough nature of the current investigation. “Although it is disappointing to hear of any potential abuse of veterinary medical licenses and the public trust, we applaud Secretary Vilsack, the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on their thorough and rapid action to investigate alleged improper conduct,” said AVMA’s Chief
Resolutions on veal calf management, veterinary student debt relief passed Several AVMA Bylaws amendments and policy proposals were on the agenda for the second regular winter session of the House of Delegates, which convened Jan. 10 in Chicago as part of the AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference. AVMA President-elect Larry M. Corry presided over the session, where delegates considered five proposed Bylaws amendments and nine resolutions. In the past, the HOD considered policy proposals only at its regular annual session that ran in conjunction with the Annual Convention. Recent revisions to the AVMA Bylaws now allow delegates to
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterial infections have become hot news lately, especially among horse people. This topic likely won’t die down soon because recent research shows that MRSA is up to 10 times more common in equine veterinarians than in the general population–and that it can spread from horses to humans. Continue reading…