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Certification of Foreign Rabies Vaccination and Microchip (for Live Dog Importations into the United States)
Get PDFThis form must be completed by the examining veterinarian not more than 30 days before travel.Endorsement by an official government veterinarian is required for the form to be valid.OMB Approval Number: 0920-1383Form Expires: 5/31/2027CS350493-A 6/20/2024347457A_FRM_NCEZID_Foreign_vacc_dog-508.pd
Iowa Animal Industry News, 2012, Vol. 14, no. 1
Get PDFNewsletter produced by Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship about the animal industry in Iowa.Previously titled Animal Industry News
AMUSE Livestock, version 2―Antimicrobial use in livestock production: A tool to harmonise data collection on knowledge, attitude and practices
Get PDFAnimal Industry News, April 2006, Vol. 7, no. 1
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Canine Distemper Virus: Anatomy of an Outbreak
Get PDFCanine distemper virus can easily enter a shelter, is tricky to diagnose, and may wreak havoc on a shelter’s dog population. A veterinarian and a shelter official discuss the policies and procedures that helped a shelter in West Kennebunk, Maine, cope with an outbreak
Animal Industry News, 2009, Vol. 10, no. 1
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Animal Industry News, February 2001, Vol. 2, no. 1
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Improving institutional memory on challenges and methods for estimation of pig herd antimicrobial exposure based on data from the Danish Veterinary Medicines Statistics Program (VetStat)
Get PDFWith the increasing occurrence of antimicrobial resistance, more attention
has been directed towards surveillance of both human and veterinary
antimicrobial use. Since the early 2000s, several research papers on Danish pig
antimicrobial usage have been published, based on data from the Danish
Veterinary Medicines Statistics Program (VetStat). VetStat was established in
2000, as a national database containing detailed information on purchases of
veterinary medicine. This paper presents a critical set of challenges
originating from static system features, which researchers must address when
estimating antimicrobial exposure in Danish pig herds. Most challenges
presented are followed by at least one robust solution. A set of challenges
requiring awareness from the researcher, but for which no immediate solution
was available, were also presented. The selection of challenges and solutions
was based on a consensus by a cross-institutional group of researchers working
in projects using VetStat data. No quantitative data quality evaluations were
performed, as the frequency of errors and inconsistencies in a dataset will
vary, depending on the period covered in the data. Instead, this paper focuses
on clarifying how VetStat data may be translated to an estimation of the
antimicrobial exposure at herd level, by suggesting uniform methods of
extracting and editing data, in order to obtain reliable and comparable
estimates on pig antimicrobial consumption for research purposes.Comment: 25 pages, including two Appendices (pages not numbered). Title page,
including abstract, is on page 1. Body of text, including references,
abbreviation list and disclaimers for conflict of interest and funding, are
on pages 2-18. Two figures embedded in the text on pages 3 and 5. Appendix 1
starts on page 19, and Appendix 2 on page 2
Mapping the teaching of honeybee veterinary medicine in the European Union and European Free Trade Area
Get PDFBackground Honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a very important species for human beings, animals, environmental biodiversity, crop production and economic sustainability in Europe and worldwide. This study investigates whether future veterinarians are trained to deal with the particular needs of the only traditional food-producing insect in Europe.
Methods This study analyses data collected from 77 European veterinary education establishments in EU and the European Free Trade Area.
Results The results show that 75 per cent of those establishments (58 out of 77) teach honeybee veterinary medicine. There is a clear geographical differentiation. In north-western countries only about half of the establishments include honeybee health, production and product inspection in their undergraduate curricula, while in eastern, central and southern countries, which are also important beekeeping countries, the great majority of the establishments incorporate honeybee veterinary medicine in their undergraduate curriculum. Eighty-six per cent of all the establishments teaching honeybee veterinary medicine (50 of the 58) incorporate it in their core curriculum either as separate subject or as part of other subjects. Twenty-five per cent of all the establishments (19 out of 77) organise postgraduate training courses in this field.
Conclusions Veterinarians have an important role in ensuring the health, sustainability and productivity of managed honeybee colonies as they do for other animal species. It seems however that teaching of honeybee veterinary medicine receives less attention in undergraduate veterinary curricula in EU compared with other fields of veterinary medicine. Seeing the increasing importance of honey bees for crop protection, environmental protection and economic sustainability, it would be beneficial to further strengthen the education of honeybee veterinary medicine in the future. Establishments should encourage and prepare veterinarians for practising science-based veterinary medicine in honey bees by incorporating such teaching in undergraduate curricula and by providing postgraduate opportunities to qualified veterinarians wishing to enhance their basic skills in this field
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