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VBS Professor Fang Li is part of a team that is linking llamas to the potential prevention and ending of SARS-CoV-2 infection in animals.

The threat of highly pathogenic disease transmission has spurred significant biosecurity efforts in the agricultural sector in the United States and throughout the world. But the bulk of those efforts have focused on prevention, and not so much on containment.

VBS Professor Randy Singer led a case study about bacterial differences in broiler chicken litter associated with Campylobacter, which is a leading source of bacterial diarrhea among humans in the US, causing an estimated 1.5 million illnesses each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

VBS Professors Hinh Ly and Yuying Liang led a study to test cats and dogs for antibodies, which would reveal past infection of the COVID-19 virus. 

Ninety-three percent of dairy cows receive an intramammary infusion of long-acting antimicrobials independent of mastitis infection status.

Though researchers have previously used the method to find CWD in various deer tissues and biological samples, this is believed to be the first time RT-QuIC has been used to analyze skeletal muscle tissues that are commonly consumed to look for evidence of CWD.

Urinary stones are painful for pets but eliminating them does not have to be expensive for pet owners. Lower-cost, minimally invasive techniques developed over the past 40 years by veterinarians at the University of Minnesota Urolith Center are available for most stone types and patients.

Risk assessment as an epidemiological tool can help drive transboundary disease mitigation strategies in the United States and across the globe.

One of the initial samples tested positive, meaning the easily communicable disease which is viable for years in the environment was now present on county land, threatening a large white-tailed deer population and the multimillion dollar economic benefit it feeds.

There’s evidence a disease called deformed wing virus (DWV), most often found in honeybees, may transmit to bumblebees if a diseased honeybee leaves the virus on a flower that a bumblebee later visits.