New South Wales (NSW) police are warning horse owners that any breaches of the movement ban on horses “will not be tolerated and will be dealt with the full force of the law,” noted a Sept. 7 government press release. There is no indication when
September is National Preparedness Month. The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) is joining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, along with other veterinary and equine organizations, to promote the need for equine emergency
The New Jersey Board of Pharmacy has approved a 14-module, eight-hour program for training pharmacy technicians at Wedgewood Pharmacy. The program was developed by the company’s Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Department. Upon completio
Lloyd’s of London Underwriters, Brokers, and their Kentucky Agents recently presented the University of Kentucky’s Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center $45,000 for the continued support of The Lloyd?s Equine Disease Quarterly. This year marke
The Equine Branch of Louisiana State Animal Response Team (LSART) has spent the past two years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita working on local, regional, and state emergency preparedness and response.
LSART is the operational arm of
The Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) is urging residents to ensure their pets, livestock, and horses have been vaccinated against rabies. Rabies cases have reached an all-time high, with 169 animal cases this year compared to 49 animal
Today (Sept. 6) saw the talley of equine influenza-infected horses and properties rise throughout the day in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, as test results were reported. As of 6:00 p.m. Sept. 6, there were 214 infected properties on which
Congressman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky) will get to wield a pair of scissors and slice through a ribbon to officially open the new Kentucky Equine Humane Center (KyEHC), a facility established with the specific goal of providing owners with a humane
When the time came for Jamie Clifton to stockpile horse feed for the winter at Volunteer Equine Advocates, she found grain prices up and hay expensive and in tight supply. Now, she said, she’s wondering how high horse feed commodity prices can
Investigators have determined a pipe at a research laboratory facility in southern England caused last month’s outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.
Britain’s Health and Safety Executiv
The horses that pull tourists on leisurely carriage rides through Central Park are working without enough water, shade, or oversight from authorities, a city report says.
City agencies haven’t kept up with required veterinary checks and
The British Horse Society (BHS) has placed a call for volunteers to organize ragwort-pulling parties during its Ragwort Awareness Week to remove the deadly weed where it is growing on, and near to, grazing land. The second BHS
World Rabies Day, to be held Sept. 8, 2007, is an international event launching global efforts to eliminate rabies. The inaugural event will remind people that rabies is still a
A total of 527 third-year veterinary students from 34 schools across the country attended the Opportunities in Equine Practice Seminar (OEPS) 2007 over Labor Day weekend. The seminar offered all-expenses-paid trips to Lexington, Ky., to learn
There now are 1,311 equine influenza-infected horses on 146 confirmed properties in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, according to NSW Department of Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald on Sept. 5. There are 3,376 horses suspected of having
According to the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) 2000 report, 13% of all horse facilities participating in the study had a horse struck by laminitis in the previous year–and 4.7% of these horses died or were euthanatized. That
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