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Featured The American Quarter Horse Journal, December 29, 2009 – The qualifying season for the 2010 Bank of America Amateur and FedEx Open World Championship Show is under way, and the recommendations for qualifying points have been approved by the American Quarter Horse Association Executive Committee. AQHA’s in-house World Show Committee uses a formula to determine the qualifying points that includes information on entries for the previous World Show. The committee then presents the recommendations to the Executive Committee for approval. Qualifying points for the 2010 AQHA World Show will remain the same as in 2009, with the
Wildlife, assistance dogs, and military veterinarians are just some of the subjects of bills added to the AVMA’s federal legislative agenda. The Executive Board approved various AVMA responses to a slate of bills identified by its Legislative Advisory Committee. Initiatives designated for “active pursuit of passage” by the Association in the 111th Congress are as follows: A congressional resolution honoring the 250th world anniversary of the veterinary profession. In 2011, the profession will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the world’s first veterinary school, in Lyon, France. The congressional resolution would acknowledge the contributions of the veterinary
As part of a racetrack screening program, three New Mexico horses have been identified as infected with Theileria equi, a causative agent for equine piroplasmosis. These infections are noteworthy, as these horses are not epidemiologically linked to those involved in a larger ongoing investigation centered on horses from a South Texas ranch. Continue reading…
A variety of environmental factors might be related to West Nile virus (WNV) infections in horses, reported a Florida research team lead by Leslie M.V. Rios, PhD, from the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Florida in Gainesville. West Nile virus is a threat to horses and humans in North America, including the state of Florida where 1,082 equine cases of WNV were reported between 2001 and 2006. Continue reading…