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Canadian spotlight report: Preserving antibiotics
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, has issued a spotlight report: Handle with Care: Preserving Antibiotics Now and Into the Future. There’s nothing too surprising in it, which in a...
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Strangles and horse shows: Cancellation vs infection control
A number of Ontario fairs have cancelled horse shows because of concerns about strangles. Strangles is a nasty and highly contagious disease of horses caused by the bacterium Streptococcus equi, which...
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When antibiotics fail… A tale of two antimicrobial resistance reports
Two reports came out this week, both detailing the scourge of antibiotic resistance. In Canada, the Canadian Council of Academies released “When antibiotics fail: the expert panel on the potential...
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Antimicrobial resistance attributable to animal contact
Various times, I’ve asked audiences “What percentage of antimicrobial resistance in humans do you think it attributable to antimicrobial use in animals?” Answers pretty much range from 0-100%. The...
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COVID-19 in Animals Review Part 5: Horses
What the story with SARS-CoV-2 in horses? This one’s easy to answer: we have no clue. There’s been almost no investigation or research regarding this virus in horses. Horses often get left out in...
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Update: COVID-19 in Animals Review Part 5: Horses
This one’s as easy to write as the first version… we still have no clue. Overall, the health risk to horses from SARS-CoV-2 is probably very low. If horses were getting sick, or at least very sick, we...
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Should We Vaccinate Animals Against SARS-CoV-2?
Concerns about the animal aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to come in waves. Most of the time they are ignored or dismissed, but there are also periodic flurries of attention and (often over-)...
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SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Healthy Horse
While we’ve learned a lot about the susceptibility of many different animal species to SARS-CoV-2, horses have been a bit of an unknown. We’ve had concerns about potential susceptibility based on the...
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Rabies Recap, US 2021
As per usual, the annual US rabies state-of-the-union has been published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (Ma et al. 2023). It’s the same general information every year,...
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Updated CLSI Veterinary Susceptibility Testing Guidance: What Veterinarians...
Diagnostic testing is a cornerstone of veterinary medicine that helps us optimize patient care, but there’s a lot of science behind it that people often forget. We collect a sample, send it off for...
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