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Selected Results and Impacts
Marek's disease, a highly contagious disease which costs poultry producers worldwide $1 billion a year, is being addressed with CSREES funds.
CSREES-funded research could lead to more effective vaccines for commercial fish farming.
A CSREES-funded project aims to use a biosensor to rapidly find and contain Avian Influenza on farms.
CSREES-funded researchers in North Carolina discovered an enzyme that can destroy prions, believed to cause mad cow and other human and animal diseases.
CSREES research keeps mad cow disease out of U.S. beef as researchers understand its similarity to chronic wasting disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob in humans.
CSREES initiates Coordinated Agricultural Project for Johne's Disease.
CSREES Higher Education Challenge Grants help prepare future animal health experts through the development and support of collegiate educational programs.
CSREES partners at the University of Minnesota and USDA sequenced the bacterium genome for Johne's disease--a chronic, potentially fatal cattle disease.
CSREES funded projects on the spread of chronic wasting disease, its threat to cattle and detection in deer and elk, and emerging diagnostic test kit use.
CSREES programs proactively address animal health threats, including foreign diseases.
CSREES National Research Initiative's Animal Protection Program funds research for important animal health disease issues in the United States.
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Last Updated: January 5, 2009
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