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Seeking Credibility

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Two recent events jumped agriculture’s role in the antimicrobial resistance merry-go-round into high gear. First was the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Final Guidance 213 (December 2013) that established a three-year time frame to end the use of medically important antibiotics as growth promotants. There were also new rules on veterinary oversight related to antibiotic […] Read more
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Animals front and centre on emerging human diseases

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In less than two decades, perspectives on the relationship of disease emergence in humans and domestic animals has changed dramatically. Toward the end of the 20th century, the underlying causes of emerging infectious disease were primarily attributed to aberrations in human behaviour. Methods of control and prevention were all too often centred on changing human […] Read more
Mother cow and calf.
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The Top 10 list to an easier calving season

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The chances of a successful and stress-free calving season are redoubled with planning. One part of the plan is advanced preparation for dealing with things that can go wrong once calving is underway. The other is handling the longer-term pieces of brood cow management that avert many common problems, things like nutrition and vaccination. As […] Read more
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Vet Advice: Will we ever learn?

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Our family moved recently. During the tedium of moving and editing files, a copy of an article I wrote 10 years ago fell from a bundle of papers. “Ginny’s Sick” stared at me from the floor and brought back a flood of memories: a grandchild in Stollery Children’s Hospital on the end of a transfusion […] Read more
Features, Vet advice

Avoid allergic reactions

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With only the rare occurrence of allergic reactions in cattle they are not mentioned much in the literature. However, today’s modern producers give more in the way of vaccines and antimicrobials. With longer-acting products that are only approved subcutaneously or intramuscularly and not intravenously the risk level is elevated. The carrier or base in the […] Read more
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Vet Advice: An imposter among us

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Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) is one of the most important diseases of deer in North America. The viruses that cause EHD are widespread in whitetail deer and cause serious epidemics in wild populations. Some of the EHD virus strains causing disease in deer can also affect cattle. While EHD is rarely fatal in cattle and […] Read more
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Ergot poisoning

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Resurgence of an ancient fungus in Prairie grains that causes disease in animals is a reminder of earlier times, a backslide to the Middle Ages and before where it often changed how people lived and ate. Precipitated by cool, wet conditions through early stages of the growing season, ergot (Claviceps purpurea) is expected to be […] Read more
File photo of a cow grazing near Leader, Sask., about 85 km south of Kindersley. (James_Gabbert/iStock/Getty Images)
Reproductive Diseases, Vet advice

IBR persists

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Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) is caused by bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1). Other types of herpes viruses affect humans and cause diseases we know as chicken pox, cold sores, and shingles. One of the characteristics of herpes viruses is the ability to infect cells and then lie dormant for long periods before some stressful event lowers the […] Read more
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Johne’s disease: Are we doing enough?

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A chronic debilitating intestinal disease of cattle was recognized in Europe as early as 1826. By 1894 it was recognized as an infectious disease and characterized by Drs. Heinrich Johne (German) and Frothingham (U.S.). Johne’s disease was first described in the U.S. in 1908. Johne’s disease, also called paratuberculosis, is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium […] Read more
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Off the fence

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The heat was just turned up in the antimicrobial resistant debate, especially about agriculture’s potential involvement. For years agriculture sat on the fence about its role in the whole scenario claiming the feeding of low levels of selected antibiotics for growth promotion is safe with no implications for human health. Now in the wake of […] Read more

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