Under the direction of Pam McCloud Smith, the Dane County Humane Society not only serves more than 8,000 animals per year, it has developed humane-education programs, collaborated with community partners such as the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, and established events such as Community Dog Days. Combined, they have led to a steady decrease in shelter intake of surrendered and stray dogs and cats.
The complex issue of vaccinating newborn calves is explored in a peer-reviewed article, Does Your Vaccination Protocol Compromise Newborn Health?, by Sheila McGuirk, veterinary clinician at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, and Mark Cook, late professor in Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Barry Hartup, director of conservation medicine at the International Crane Foundation and a clinical instructor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, responds to the latest Blue Sky Science question. Blue Sky Science is a collaboration of the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for Research. The questions are posed by visitors to Science Saturdays at the Discovery Building, a monthly series that features interactive exploration stations centered around a particular topic.
As of September 20, there have been 1,589 laboratory-confirmed cases of H7N9 influenza, and 39 percent of those people have died. “It was a matter of time,” says the flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It wasn’t surprising to see this change.”
Lab experiments on a new strain of the H7N9 bird flu circulating in China suggest the virus can transmit easily among animals and can cause lethal disease, raising alarms that the virus has the potential for triggering a global human pandemic, researchers reported on Thursday.
Watching veterinarians perform surgery on livestock at her family’s farm northwest of Waunakee spurred Elizabeth Endres' interest in science. Endres is in her second year working to attain her doctor of veterinary medicine degree.
A new, two-part webinar series featuring presentations by Karl Burgi, visiting lecturer at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, and Nigel Cook, SVM professor in Food Animal Production Medicine, will provide insights for dairy producers to implement lameness management action plans on their own farms.
It’s important for owners to always pay attention to context and tone when their dogs bark and bark and bark.
We’ve all heard the phrase “Happy Cows”, but a study being done by Dairyland Initiative at UW-Madison is proving just what it takes to help bovines achieve udder bliss.