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New instruments for Johne’s disease and TB

New instruments for Johne’s disease and TB

The MilkEd project aimed to develop an instrument that could identify Johne’s disease in under 45 minutes. Prototypes ready for...

Management of economically important farm animal diseases 

Diseases do damage to farming livelihoods, and this damage can be extreme in certain cases. In this article, some aspects...

Ed van Klink

Adverse event reports – increasing their value

Gillian Diesel and Sue Cooles from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate explain why it is vital that information provided by veterinary...

VPT Editor
Double gold for vet student Laura Muir

Double gold for vet student Laura Muir

Laura Muir during 1500m Women run in the Rio 2016 Olympics. First major international title won at Belgrade   Glasgow veterinary...

Industry Editor
‘A fifth of honey samples contain neonicotinoid residues’

‘A fifth of honey samples contain neonicotinoid residues’

“We don’t know what the risk of such long-term chronic exposure to neonicotinoids is over the course of an entire...

Wildlife Editor
Calls for ‘urgent review’ of wild giraffe management

Calls for ‘urgent review’ of wild giraffe management

Lead author Zoe Muller warned that the continual loss of juveniles could lead to “an unrecoverable situation". Living alongside lions...

Wildlife Editor