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Enter Online Less income from states, teaching hospitals, private sector spells cutbacks The recession’s impact on veterinary schools and colleges can be seen in what isn’t on those campuses. Mothballed teaching positions, delayed building projects and equipment purchases, and smaller endowments plague just about every institution, officials say. All this after many of them were required to return portions of state funding midyear and before they have had a chance to deal with the dramatic cuts expected for this coming fiscal year’s budget. Dr. H. Michael Chaddock, deputy executive director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, said
As state budgets were being determined this spring, veterinary schools and colleges looked to outside resources to make sure their requests were heard. At the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Dean Ralph C. Richardson said he had weekly communications with the university’s legislative liaison. Every Monday he also met with other deans and senior administrators to talk about where they stood during the budgeting process. “We have had some inquires from legislators on our budget and we have provided them information. I would say it’s a fairly continuous, close-working relationship with the board of regents
Federal authorities announced removal of limitations on one brand of pre-exposure rabies vaccine that had been imposed in spring 2008 because of tight supplies. An early April announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that Novartis Vaccines, one of the nation’s two human-use rabies vaccine suppliers, had doses available for pre-exposure use. Novartis and Sanofi Pasteur both supply vaccines for postexposure use, but Sanofi’s vaccine is available only following evaluations from state or local health departments. Both vaccines were restricted to postexposure use starting in May 2008, with exceptions for people who were at
The same strain of Clostridium difficile that causes illness and death in human hospitals was reported in a 14-year-old Quarter Horse, according to a paper published in May issue of the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. Clostridium difficile bacteria can proliferate in the intestines and produce toxins that can damage the intestinal lining of horses, humans, and production animals such as cattle and swine. Continue reading…
Japanese researchers recently reported the use of the technology “Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) cloning,” which enabled the scientists to clone the entire genome of a virus in bacteria. The technique could be used to mass produce infectious equine herpesvirus-4 (EHV-4), allowing researchers to study differences in this and related viruses’ ability to cause disease. It might also “serve as a tool for production of biologically safe vaccines against EHV-1, EHV-4, or both” the authors noted. Continue reading…