How awesome is this? The US Fish and Wildlife service are using vaccine-laced M&Ms to deliver protection to at risk ferrets and prairie dogs.
USING DRONES!
Drone technology certainly has come a long way and will hopefully expand even more in the delivery of disease surveillance and agricultural opportunities.
Let’s all remember that before Skynet becomes active.
Source: Drones to unleash vaccine-laced M&Ms in bid to save endangered ferrets | Environment | The Guardian
Highlighting an area where veterinarians can expand our knowledge – companion animal geriatric medicine.
Many of the world’s biggest economies worry about the growth in our ageing human population. But now science reveals they might need to consider our ageing feline population, too.
Source: We’ve got an aging cat population and it could be an issue | SBS Science
The peak body representing Australia’s dairy farmers has been forced to slash its budget.
Welcome news from EQ regarding the reversal of its position on the HeV vaccine.
Equestrian Queensland has reversed its position on the Hendra virus vaccine.
Always good to see an old Professor of mine getting the message out there. Perfect space for practitioners with a research-leaning mind to get involved.
“We think we’ve got a grade-A report within companion animals and in livestock that we’ve got low levels of resistance particularly to critically important drugs used for serious or complicated infections.
“But without vigilance, without good study you can flip the report card very quickly and very easily.
“So it’s really important across the level governments, industry, universities that we’re all working together to keep these rates at this really low level.” – Prof Darren Trott, University of Adelaide
Source: Australia winning against superbugs in animals, researchers find