** Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Quality, Veterinary Services, Central Laboratory for Veterinary Research, B.P. 67, 94703 Maisons-Alfort Cedex, France. Summary : Leptospirosis occurs, at least in its inapparent form, in the majority of European countries. Clinical incidence is generally low. However, the disease has created problems in pigs in Central Europe and in cattle infected by s...

∗Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA †Laboratorio de Entomologia Medica, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon 66450, Mexico ‡Departamento de Control de Vectores, Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia, Chilpancingo, Guerrero 39...

Author affiliations: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (M. Venter, S. Human, D. Zaayman, J. Williams, J. Steyl, C. Donnellan); National Health Laboratory Services, Pretoria (M. Venter); Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute, Pretoria (G.H. Gerdes); National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa (P. Leman, J.T. Paweska, R. Swanepoel); Chartwell Equine...

Animal health is fundamental to efficient animal production and, therefore, to food security and human health. This holds true for both terrestrial and aquatic animals. Although partnership between producers and governmental services is vital for effective animal health programmes, many key activities are directly carried out by governmental services. Noting the need to improve the governance o...

This focus article has been prepared by Susanna Williamson, Emma Stubberfield and Anna Brzozowska of the APHA Jill Thomson SRUC – Veterinary Consulting Services, Edinburgh.

a study was undertaken in southern peninsular state of india, the tamil nadu state, to assess the farmers’ “willingness to pay” (wtp) for receiving annual health care services to their dairy animals. the districts of the state were categorized as “livestock developed” (ld) and “livestock under developed” (lud) based on initial base line developed. contingent valuation (cv) approach was used to ...

The origin of veterinary public health (VPH), as the term is understood today, dates back to the late 1940s and early 1950s with the creation of new responsibilities and a broader range of career openings for veterinarians within some public health agencies, especially in disease intelligence aspects of the newly developing science of epidemiology. Other well-established scientific relationship...

Veterinary education serves as the foundation on which a country can build effective Veterinary Services (VS). In addition, an appropriately well-educated animal health workforce will be better poised to actively participate in and advance good governance practices. Good governance, in turn, will lead to improved animal and veterinary public heath infrastructures and help advance economic devel...

The Campus Veterinarian is responsible for ensuring that adequate and humane veterinary care is provided to the research and teaching animals at UC Davis. Veterinary care is an essential component of an animal care program to ensure that the humane needs of research animals are met while maintaining compatibility with the scientific requirements. In addition to providing healthy research animal...