Animal Health - extension.usu.edu

Welcome to the USU Extension Animal Health webpage. Use the links below on this page or to the left under "Advisories" or "Health Topics" to go to articles or other websites for information related to those topics.

USU Extension, in conjunction with Novartis Animal Health and MWI, offers:

"Livestock Vitamins and Minerals Program and Hepatic Biopsy Wet Lab"

Thursday, February 5 and Friday, February 6, 2009

ARTC (new south farm building) Logan, UT

Cost is $50 per veterinarian which includes:

1. Meals (dinner, breakfast, and lunch)

2. 7 hours of Continuing Education

3. Wet lab with opportunity to biopsy cattle

4. Lodging (for out of town veterinarians)

5. USU-UNM men’s basketball game

Space is limited to the first 25 veterinarians. Register on-line at: http://sail2.ext.usu.edu/ah

For more information or questions, contact Dr. Kerry Rood at 435-797-1882, kerry.rood@usu.edu

Program:

2/5/09

3:45 pm ARTC Refreshments Novartis

4:00 pm ARTC Welcome Dr. Rood

4:05 pm ARTC UVDL Update Dr. Baldwin

4:45 – 5:00 pm ARTC Serve Dinner Novartis

5:00 – 6:15 pm ARTC BVDv Dr. Rhoades

7:00 pm USU Spectrum USU-UNM BBall Novartis

Novartis animal health is providing each veterinarian with one priority ticket to the USU-University of New Mexico men’s basketball game. Additional tickets may be purchased on your own at registration or by contacting the athletics ticket office.

2/6/09

8:30 am ARTC Light breakfast Novartis

8:30 am ARTC Trichomoniasis Drs. King & Rood

9:30 am ARTC Vitamins and Minerals Dr. Hall

12:00 pm ARTC Lunch Novartis

1:00 – 4:00 pm ARTC Wet Lab (liver biopsy) Dr. Hall

For fact sheets on animal health published at USU, look in the upper, left column and click on "Publications" -- "List of Categories" -- "Animal Health Fact Sheets" -- and then browse down through them alphabetically. Or, click the "Search" box, type in a word describing your concern, such as "abortion", or "lamb", or "calf", etc., then press "go" or enter and a list of publications will appear. Click on one of these to view that specific fact sheet. These files are in Acrobat pdf format and can be viewed and printed using a free Acrobat file reader program. Visit the Adobe Web Site for an Acrobat file reader to install it on your own computer system.

To find past Veterinary Newsletters from USU, go to the upper, left column - click on "newsletters" -- then select one of those listed by date.

For more information:
See the "Contact Us" link or
Animal Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences Dept.

BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) / Mad Cow Disease

USU Information for Consumers - http://extension.usu.edu/ah/files/uploads/pdfs/bseinfo.pdf
Univ of Illinois - http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/AnSci/BSE/
CDC and variant CJD: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/vcjd/
UK site - http://www.priondata.org/
UK DEFRA - http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/bse/

CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease)

CWD Alliance - www.cwd-info.org/
Utah DWR - http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/hunting/biggame/cwd/
Wisconsin - http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/whealth/issues/CWD/
USDA/APHIS; CWD history - www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/nahps/cwd/cwd-history.html