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WVA Presidents Assembly 2013 and 2014
WVA Council Activities
WVA meeting with the Global Alliance for Rabies Control
WVA Awards
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 Selected Theme 2013: Vaccination
“Vaccination to prevent and protect”
Pakistani Veterinary PhD Scholars at Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China celebrated World Veterinarian Day on April 27, 2013. Views of the speakers were as follow:
Dr. Javaid Ali Gadahi, Lecturer, Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Sindh Adriculture University, Tandojam and PhD Scholar, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China expressed his views and said that veterinarians are key players to develop sustainable livestock in the country.
Vaccination is simple and probably single procedure that has saved more human and animal lives than any other procedure. Due to the effectiveness of vaccines in reducing or eradicating many important diseases in veterinary medicine, many are now questioning the necessity of routine vaccination for animal.
Selected Theme 2013: Vaccination
“Vaccination to prevent and protect”
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  The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has warmly welcomed the announcement that a vaccine to protect sheep and cattle against the Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is now available.
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) announced today that it has granted MSD Animal Health a provisional marketing authorisation for Bovilis SBV, which is the first vaccine specifically targeting SBV in cattle and sheep.
Commenting, Peter Jones, President of the BVA, said:
“Given the serious worry that this new disease has caused and the significant losses that individual farmers have faced, the news that a vaccine is now available should be warmly welcomed.
“Although we are aware that previous exposure to the virus provides some immunity there remains a lot of uncertainty about how long the immunity will last and which animals in the herd or flock have been exposed.
“Farmers can now plan with good veterinary advice how, where and when to use the vaccine to protect their animals and their offspring.”
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 From microchipping frogs, collecting blood from a gecko to getting sample tissue from a small venomous snake, competent handling skills are key to examining and treating these scaly specimens.
Dr Robert Johnson, who will be describing the latest reptile handling techniques at the Australian Veterinary Association’s (AVA) conference next week, said it’s often assumed that vets have experience handling and treating a wide range of species.
“With more people keeping reptiles as pets, especially in the urban setting, some pet-based practices are now required to be skilled in this area.
“Handling practices can vary for different types of reptiles, especially small, fragile or venomous species.”
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 June 01, 2013
The AVMA has endorsed a program by the American Veterinary Dental College that provides free dental examinations for service dogs.
“I’m enthusiastic about this program, because it helps keep service animals healthy so they can do the important work that helps so many people,” said Dr. Douglas G. Aspros, AVMA president. “From helping the sight impaired to finding a lost child during a disaster or detecting explosives at airports, service dogs are tops in their field.”
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A new report on the ‘causes of causes’ of H7N9 and other diseases that are emerging in animals and jumping species—into people
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As published in PNAS 2013: 1208059110v1-201208059. Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change, by Delia Grace and others, May 2013.
By Michelle Geis
The deadly H7N9 bird flu virus in China and the spread of a SARS-like coronavirus in the Middle East continue to make headlines. H7N9 has killed 35 people in China and 20 have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus—which has spread from Saudi Arabia to the UK, France and Germany.
Two opinion editorials in the New York Times last week, The next contagion: Closer than you think and The next pandemic: Not if, but when, correctly warn us about the potential global spread of these killer diseases. They call for more awareness of the dangers of zoonotic (animal-to-people) diseases, faster identification of animal sources of the pathogens and better vaccines to protect us against them. All of those are indeed needed.
But like much of the mainstream press, neither article mentions the root cause of these emerging infectious diseases, that is, the conditions that make zoonoses likely to arise in the first place and then help turn them into lethal pandemics.
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Solve Agri & Dairy Institute (SADI), Pakistan’s first private sector trainings and skills development institute for dairy, livestock and related agriculture sectors, has launched its new website today. The website can be accessed at www.sadi.edu.pk.
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We are very happy to welcome the Society for Theriogenology - SFT, to the ever growing group of veterinary organizations that make their proceedings available in the IVIS website.
We are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Theriogenology - SFT, that took place in 2012 (Baltimore, MD, USA) and 2011 (Milwaukee, WI, USA), are now available in the IVIS on-line Library. Browse the Proceedings.
The Society for Theriogenology is an organization of veterinarians dedicated to animal reproduction, whose mission is to promote standards of excellence in reproductive medicine, to provide outreach and education to veterinarians, and to foster continual improvements in theriogenology. According to Dorland's Medical Dictionary (25th Edition), theriogenology is that branch of veterinary medicine which deals with reproduction, including the physiology and pathology of male and female reproductive systems and the clinical practice of veterinary obstetrics, gynecology, and semenology.
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 A potential new treatment strategy for patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is on the horizon, thanks to research by neuroscientists now at the University at Buffalo's Hunter James Kelly Research Institute and their colleagues in Italy and England.
The institute is the research arm of the Hunter's Hope Foundation, established in 1997 by Jim Kelly, Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame quarterback, and his wife, Jill, after their infant son Hunter was diagnosed with Krabbe leukodystrophy, an inherited fatal disorder of the nervous system.
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