Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, July 3, 2025. Link.
Most read posts from July 3, 2025 AHD Bulletin –
- WOAH, invest in vaccines to defend against growing disease threats. Link.
- Redesigned Secure Beef Supply website, new biosecurity resources. Link.
- 13 plants that gardening experts say repel mosquitoes. Link.
- New York judge says a dog is now legally a member of the family. Link.
- Engagement and retention. Link.
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A simple way to introduce yourself
Source: Harvard Business Review, August 2, 2022. Link. Take a slow, deep breath, and think, “Present, past, future,” shares Andrea Wojnicki , MBA, DBA.
The science behind the smell of rain
Source: Popular Science, June 12, 2025. Link. Tom Hawking shares the story of bacteria, arthropods, and two very smelly organic compounds that combine for that wonderful petrichor when it rains. But wait, there’s more to understand the importance of geosmin and 2-MIB to water’s taste and smells.
Bacteria in the air of indoor riding arenas
Source: My Senior Horse, April 25, 2025. Link. Airway diseases in horses and riders are often correlated to bad air quality. Researchers studied air quality in closed riding arenas measuring bacteria at the horse level and rider level. The bacterial loads in all four arenas significantly increased after the riding program. Staphylococcus spp. occurred as the predominant aerobic mesophilic bacteria. Researchers indicated that the ground was probably the main source of airborne Staphylococcus spp. during riding.
Don’t let them go. Engage, retain youngsters passionate about the swine industry
Source: PORK, July 8, 2025. Link. The pork industry needs to recruit kids when they are young to help them realize there are lots of opportunities for kids who like working with pigs. Jennifer Shike asserts the need for commercial swine producers and industry partners to invest in bringing the kids back to the farms.
Bacteria sound a population-wide alarm to defend against threats
Source: The Scientist, May 25, 2025. Link. To survive in the face of their main enemy, antibiotics, bacteria have developed unique communication systems, a process called competence. Research findings published in Nature Communications, demonstrated that competence propagates through the population like a wave likely by releasing Competence Stimulating Peptide, the molecule that triggers competence and alerts neighboring bacteria.