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Enter Online Schaumburg, IL — At the 146th Annual Convention of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), association leaders welcomed a new president and took action on animal welfare and antimicrobial policies as well as cost cutting measures. In his speech before the full AVMA House of Delegates (AVMA-HOD) on Friday, July 10, incoming AVMA President Larry R. Corry, DVM, pointed out that the financial collapse of the past year has had an impact on the association. But, nonetheless, association leaders passed tough budgeting measures to ensure that dues were not raised on veterinarians. “Financially speaking, to say the
In the backyard, on the farm, at the veterinary clinic—humans, animals, and environments everywhere interact to share one health. The One Health Initiative has promoted this one-health concept for several years. Now the One Health Commission has been launched to help address, more directly, interdisciplinary health issues in the United States and throughout the global village. On June 29, the commission incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Its main mission is to increase cooperation among health professions and other groups to prevent and treat zoonotic diseases and other medical conditions common to humans and animals. Dr. Roger K.
About 28 percent of pet owners who smoke would try to quit if they knew that secondhand smoke endangered their pets, according to recent research. “Pet owners’ attitudes and behaviours related to smoking and second-hand smoke: a pilot study” appeared in the April issue of the journal Tobacco Control. Among the authors is the late Ronald M. Davis, MD, who championed the One Health Initiative when he was president of the American Medical Association. The researchers, from Henry Ford Health System’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Detroit, conducted a Web survey of 3,293 adult
The Department of Agriculture announced in June that it had issued a conditional license for the first canine influenza virus vaccine. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health developed the vaccine, which is made from killed virus and is intended to aid in controlling disease associated with infection with canine influenza virus type A, subtype H3N8. Canine influenza was first identified in U.S. dogs in 2004 after an outbreak of respiratory disease in racing Greyhounds in Florida. Since then, it has continued to spread and has been detected in dogs in 30 states and the District of Columbia. For the rest
Schaumburg, IL — The National FFA Organization awarded a $1,000 American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) scholarship to Alyzabeth Looney of Denton, Texas. This is the second year that the AVMA has sponsored scholarships for aspiring veterinarians through the FFA. Ms. Looney plans to use the scholarship to pursue an undergraduate degree and then a veterinary degree at Texas A&M University. She is interested in practicing large animal veterinary medicine. “I feel very privileged in receiving this scholarship from AVMA,” says Ms. Looney. “This scholarship will help me to continue my education in animal science at Texas A&M
Think how hard it would be to train a horse, even with positive reinforcement, to make the association between something that happens today and something that comes on gradually even a day later. In a punishment paradigm, delay is even more problematic than in a reinforcement paradigm. In fact, that’s why most behaviorists recommend against punitive methods. Unless the timing is immediate, the horse just seems confused by the aversive experience or makes unintended associations with intervening events. Continue reading…
The force a rider exerts on the horse’s back will shift depending on his or her position and should be included in any evaluation of tack pressure, researchers recently reported. “You need a force that is distributed over a certain area to make a good evaluation of the saddle pressure, therefore saddle measurements should be performed with a rider,” said Patricia de Cocq, MSc, DVM, of Wageningen University in The Netherlands. “The load distribution underneath the saddle should be as equal as possible to prevent saddle sores.” Continue reading…
Virginia’s first case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in a horse this year has been confirmed by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS). The horse, a 2-year-old female draft cross from Chesapeake, was confirmed positive for EEE late in the afternoon of July 10. A veterinarian euthanized the horse prior to diagnosis on July 3 due to the severity of her clinical signs, which included incoordination, depression, and fever, progressing to an inability to stand without help. Continue reading…
Diagnostic deworming of horses with anti-tapeworm drugs could play an important role in reducing resistance to antiparasitic drugs, report veterinarians from Japan and North America. Tapeworm infections are an important issue in equine health. Infections are difficult to detect because the available tests are unable to reliably detect or quantify parasite burdens. Continue reading…
America’s Horse, July 13, 2009 — Building on last year’s success, the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum in Amarillo, Texas, is hosting the second annual America’s Horse in Art: The Horse That Settled the West show and sale August 14 through November 14. The exhibit and sale will be showcased in the Scharbauer Gallery in the museum. The nearly 25 featured artists include Greg Kelsey, Mark Kohler, Bruce Graham, Teal Blake, Mehl Lawson and Mikel Donahue, who created the headliner art for this year’s event (see the complete list of artists below). On August