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Brownfield Ag News (Aug. 20) – Dr. Timothy Fan and other researchers in the veterinary college helped create the Illinois SHIELD test. He says the veterinary diagnostic lab made the quick implementation of the test…
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Illinois AgriNews (Aug. 18) – An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in United States could be devastating for the beef or dairy industry. “Foot and mouth disease is still present in the world,” said…
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ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Aug. 18) – Watch as students in the Wildlife Medical Clinic give an examination and administer medication to one of their patients, a great horned owl. Dr. Sam Sanders narrates the event. Inside…
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NPR (Aug. 15) – As students return to the campus of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this month, they will be tested for COVID-19. And, then they’ll be tested, again. “We are requiring testing two…
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Journal of the AVMA (Aug. 12) – Atlantic bottlenose dolphins in the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program in San Diego developed acute-onset illness with lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy in April and May 2019….
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Feedstuffs (Aug. 12) – The U. of I. College of Veterinary Medicine recently established an online master’s degree to help address global demands for a safe and nourishing food supply. “Only a relatively small number…
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Science (Aug. 3) – In an article calling for a “radical shift in testing strategy” to adequately contain the coronavirus pandemic, Rebecca Smith, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says, “we need…
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YouTube (July 30) – The International Fund for Animal Welfare organized a briefing to give Congressional staff an overview of the origins of COVID-19 and other zoonotic pandemics, the underlying activities that put us at…
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American Veterinary Medical Association (July 29) – Dr. Will Sander, assistant professor for Preventative Medicine and Public Health and director of the DVM/MPH program at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, describes his…
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WCIA-TV News (July 29) – After a dog died of heatstroke recently in Danville, Dr. Caroline Tonozzi, chief of the small animal emergency and critical care service at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital,…
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