AVMA Press Room Photo Gallery

Students watch as APHIS veterinarian John Duncan performs a test for scrapie susceptibility. Future Farmers of America members are wearing blue shirts.

At the slaughterhouse, Marcos Rostagno places a gauze pad on the holding pen floor as soon as study pigs are unloaded. The gauze sample will be cultured for Salmonella bacteria.

Larry Myers (left) and microbiologist Richard Shelby test a dog at the Lee County Humane Society to see whether the dog is a good candidate for the canine program.

ARS agricultural engineer Yud-Ren Chen is developing a computer-directed scanning system that could help speed inspection of the nearly 8 billion chickens processed annually through federally inspected U.S. plants.

With the help of veterinary student Erica Blackman, Rusty, a yellow labrador mix, trains to sniff water samples for compounds that produce off-flavors in catfish, while associate professor Larry Myers looks on. Blackman and Myers are with the College of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn University.

Ecologists Charlie Cooper (L) and Scott Knight sample bottom sediments in Thighman Lake, Mississippi, for small invertebrates that indicate ecosystem health.