Canine coronavirus (CCoV) is a positive-strand RNA virus generally responsible for mild-to-severe gastroenteritis in dogs. In recent years, new CCoVs with acquired pathogenic characteristics have...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is testing the efficacy of a handful of vaccines against the current strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza hoping to stem the spread of the largest outbreak...
The absolute and relative prevalence of UO presentations across the combined population increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic in comparison with 2018 and 2019.
Growing up, you probably learned the children’s rhyme, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” You also may have learned the opposite sentiment, “The pen is...
The red fox is a native species in Croatia and, due to constant food availability and lack of interspecies competition, is becoming more abundant in urban and suburban areas. Although antibodies for...
The current COVID-19 vaccines are designed to trigger an antibody response to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is vulnerable to mutations that could make the vaccine less effective over time....
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed as the cause of mortality for 10 California condors found in northern Arizona, according to wildlife officials.
Disaster relief provides support following devastating earthquakes in Turkey, Syria
With shelters overwhelmed and veterinary care and supplies limited, the veterinary community's ability to care for animals, including livestock critical to the food supply, has been severely...
The aims of this study were to obtain an integrated estimate of the prevalence of leptospiral infection in domestic cats, and to characterize those individuals most susceptible to infection.
As of March 8, 2023, avian outbreaks affecting poultry had involved 58,602,281 cases and occurred in 47 U.S. states. Owners of backyard poultry flocks are understandably concerned about this highly...
Meat may be an important vehicle for human exposure to extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli strains from food animals. The authors present a novel approach for predicting the origins of clinical E....
Toxoplasma infection poses threat to marine animals
Four sea otters that stranded in California died from an unusually severe form of toxoplasmosis, according to a study from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the University of...
