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Newly funded: State looks to U researchers to investigate how CWD is transported in soils, waterways
The project will have significant impacts for not only animal and human health, but for local and statewide economies to which CWD represents more than a billion-dollar threat.
The unmitigated discharge of antibiotic compouds from hostpitals, wastewater treatment plants, and other types of facilities plays a role in the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), one of the leading modern threats to animal, human, and ecosystem health.
Chronic pain affects an estimated 20 percent of Americans, and its treatment remains an area of unmet need in both human and veterinary medicine.
While modern techniques for diagnosing a herniated disc are well established, those techniques aren’t good at determining whether the issue is acute or chronic, or whether non-herniated discs might protrude in the future.
As researchers across the country grapple with what might be behind the long-term and widespread population decline in muskrats, a piece critical to that puzzle had been missing: baseline physiological and blood health indicators for muskrats in pristine wilderness.
Researchers and scientists have long sought to develop improved treatments for HIV, with an eye toward achieving long-term, sustained remission of the disease.
Spread of the highly contagious foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) in East Africa continues in areas with higher populations of people and animals—including where local herds congregate for trade, according to newly published University research.
Because companion animals can be the source of a range of infectious diseases, determining how susceptible the two most popular pet species in the United States are to natural infection of SARS-CoV-2—and how prevalent the disease might be among them—could have significant impacts for both human and animal health.
A team of researchers, led by Tiffany Wolf, DVM, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), and Seth Moore, PhD, director of biology and environment at the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, recently published studies that prioritized contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) based on their potential environmental threat and evaluated human activities and environmental factors’ effects on CEC presence in Minnesota lakes.
In recognition of the value and need for research with direct application to the swine veterinary profession, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) Foundation granted $25,111 to Guilherme Milanez Preis, PhD student in the Veterinary Medicine Graduate Program, and Cesar Corzo, DVM, MS, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, to assess senecavirus A (SVA) shedding and transmission in growing pig populations.