Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, June 5, 2025. Link.
Most read posts from June 5 2025 AHD Bulletin –
- Strategies for culling cows this year. Link.
- Orange cats, freak of nature? Link.
- Plain speak. Link.
- AVMA’s New World screwworm resource for veterinarians. Link.
- DocTalk . . . Embryos and reproductive technologies. Link.
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The impact of flies on cattle is often underestimated
Source: DocTalk TV, June 5, 2025. Link. Cassandra Olds, PhD, shares the deleterious effects of flies and fly populations with Dan Thompson, DVM, PhD. Blood lost to flies as they feed on cattle leads to nutrient losses causing inappetence, weakening of their immune system and increased vulnerability environmental threats that wouldn’t typically affect healthy animals.
Tick saliva fuels new vaccine development
Source: DDN, April 22, 2025. Link. For some people who have encountered ticks before, the tick’s salivary proteins themselves trigger an acquired immune response. Scientists are studying how tick proteins influence host immunity, paving the way for potential mRNA vaccines to block Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
Top 8 oral drug interactions every clinician should know
Source: Clinician’s Brief, May 2025. Link. Drug interactions associated with orally administered drugs, can significantly impact pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Keeping these potential interactions in mind is critical for maintaining appropriate plasma concentrations and avoiding significant adverse effects.
Echinococcus multilocularis emerging as a new tapeworm risk
Source: DVM 360, March 4, 2025. Link. E.multilocularis infection is becoming more prevalent in North American wild and domestic canid species. Zoonotic, this strain seems to be more transmissible to humans and dogs.
The pet food landscape, a practitioner’s foible?
Source: DVM 360, June 6, 2025. Link. Taylor Root, VMD, broke down pet food to a Fetch Nashville audience to help them be more confident when talking about the process of making pet food, ideally to enable evaluations and recommendations when clients want more information. Caitlin McCafferty shares takeaways from Root’s talk.
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