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AABP: Determine drug use by disease, not marketing
Cattle should receive antibiotics when needed to treat disease even if the animals are in antibiotic-free production, according to the American…
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United States seeks ban on China’s wildlife wet markets
The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome that claimed 774 lives was merely a prologue to the current COVID-19 pandemic, which had killed…
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Bayer pulls Baytril
Bayer Corporation has stopped distribution of the antimicrobial enrofloxacin for poultry, which was marketed under the name Baytril
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Heartworm treatment remains in short supply
The only treatment on the U.S. market for heartworm infection in dogs, Merial’s Immiticide, has been in short supply for two
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Assessing pet supplements
A third of all U.S. households with dogs use supplements, as do about a fifth of households with cats, according to a report on pet supplements from…
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FDA finalizes guidance on therapeutic pet food
The Food and Drug Administration has finalized guidance that the agency drafted in response to the increasing number of therapeutic pet diets and…
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BSE rules finalized
The Food and Drug Administration finalized rules that prohibit adding certain cattle parts to foods for human consumption and other human-
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USDA amends indemnity program for pseudorabies
The USDA is amending its accelerated pseudorabies eradication program by changing the way the USDA-APHIS pays producers for their infected hogs.
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USDA issues new scrapie guidelines
New federal guidelines issued as part of a national scrapie eradication initiative are expected to simplify record keeping
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Maine officials battle new outbreak of ISA
The ISA virus was detected June 11 in one cage housing 28,000 market-size fish at a farm operated by Heritage Salmon in Cobscook Bay
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FDA fighting fraudulent cancer treatments
Fourteen companies are accused of making fraudulent claims their creams, supplements, teas, or oils could help treat or prevent
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USDA wants better tags for cattle
The visible tags used to mark cattle in commerce are inadequate to track animal movements and respond to disease outbreaks, according to Department of…
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Pseudorabies rules made final
The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has adopted two interim rules pertaining to the
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Banned in one name, allowed under another
A supplement maker accused of selling an unapproved kidney disease drug for pets is allowed to continue selling the product
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Animal tracking - May 1, 2003
Posted on April 15, 2003 National food animal identification plan makes progress The possibility of a foreign animal disease outbreak seems…
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AVMA resources for National Pet Dental Health Month
The AVMA has developed a plethora of resources for National Pet Dental Health Month in February that also are available year-round to promote dental…
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Campaign to eradicate pseudorabies continues
The government is extending its campaign to eradicate pseudorabies in the United States
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Mizzou's diagnostic lab purchased
A veterinary diagnostic testing corporation bought the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Animal Diagnostic and Investigative
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USDA authorizes funding for scrapie eradication
Scrapie costs the US sheep industry $20 million per year in direct losses.
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Modified pigs may be safe from deadly disease
By disabling a cell receptor, geneticists have produced pigs resistant to a disease that has killed millions of pigs and cost pork industries billions…
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Supplement companies made changes after facing crackdown
The availability of glucosamine for animals seemed to be in question 15 years ago.
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Maine imposes emergency rules regarding salmon virus
Maine imposes emergency rules regarding salmon virus The infectious salmon anemia virus has been identified in 12…
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USDA announces $15.8M in funding for disease preparedness, response
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $15.8 million to 60 projects led by 38 states, land-grant universities, and industry organizations to…
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1985 - 1995
This era saw female veterinarians become AVMA editor-in-chief and AVMA president-elect—and a veterinary student become Miss America.
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Vetsulin to be completely unavailable
Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is discontinuing the Vetsulin Critical-Need Program.