Sentences with phrase «animal health and disease»

With this in mind, the BVA position paper aims to identify areas in current Government surveillance networks that could be improved, and how all vets can derive increased value by contributing to animal health and disease monitoring activities and using the reports generated.»

Our position paper aims to do just that, recognising the value that all members of the veterinary profession add by contributing to animal health and disease monitoring in all its forms, be that production animal, equine, wildlife or companion animal.

After a year of evidence gathering and analysis the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has set out its comprehensive vision for animal health and disease monitoring in the UK and is calling on UK Governments to modernise and enhance the current surveillance networks.

Nutrition is the base of all animal health and disease prevention, so it is important that owners understand what they are feeding their pets.

From the wilds of Africa and the meadows of Yosemite to zoos in California and New York, Dr. Fleer has studied animal health and disease transmission for the last decade.

Funds awarded annually — typically from the Animal Health and Disease program, the Hatch program, and the Companion Animal Memorial Fund — through a competitive process of proposals reviewed by faculty members serving on the college's Research Advisory Committee.

After a year of evidence gathering and analysis the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has set out its comprehensive vision for animal health and disease monitoring in the UK and is calling on UK Go...

By way of monthly meetings and annual conferences, we provide the membership with quality continuing education to improve the health care for the animals and human residents in the local area and increase the public awareness of problems concerning animal health and disease control.

Not exact matches

Indeed in agriculture and in human and animal health, diseases are now forestalled wherever possible, by such methods as the application of trace elements to the soil, sterilization, a balanced diet and immunization.

The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Industry.

Furthermore knowing what I do about the effects of a diet laden with animal products on health and chronic disease, I wouldn't be able to subject someone I love to a meal that I wouldn't deem good enough to eat myself.

Meat consumption has been linked to serious health risks including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, while an increase in consuming plant - based foods shows numerous health benefits, namely decreasing the risk of many of those diseases caused by excessive consumption of animal products.

Producers looking for more information on Johne's disease management and transitional arrangements for J - BAS are urged to visit the Animal Health Australia website, AHA is delivering the changes on behalf of Cattle Council of Australia.

In fact, in addition to wanting to help animals, many people adopt a plant - based diet to improve their health - reducing their risk of stroke, diabetes, obesity, heart disease and some forms of cancer.

Numerous studies have linked diets higher in plant protein than animal protein to reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health ailments.

Independent studies have conclusively shown adverse health effects of BPA on the brain and reproductive system, as well as metabolic diseases in laboratory animals.

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(Feed Yourself, Feed Your Family, 2012) Mothers who consume no animal products, those who have nutrient absorption issues due to Crohn's disease or gastric by - pass surgery, or who have diets limited by other disorders or choices, should discuss vitamin supplementation, particularly vitamin B12, with a knowledgeable health professional for the sake of their own body and health as well as to ensure that their bodies have adequate stores to draw on when producing breastmilk.

Designate and provide an isolation area for animals that exhibit symptoms of contagious disease or illness in order to prevent or reduce the spread of disease to health animals;

Forward - thinking scientists, many with funding from PETA and its international affiliates, are developing methods for studying diseases and testing products that don't require the use of animals and are actually relevant to human health.

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

The demonstration of this poison pill in the coxsackievirus B3 could theoretically translate to other positive - sense RNA viruses, including those linked to asthma and to foot - and - mouth disease that is a major animal health concern in Europe and South America.

«We've known that aging is a major risk factor for most chronic diseases for some time, but recently, we've gained a better understanding of the aging process's basic underpinnings, which has allowed us to extend both life span and health — in animals at least,» says Felipe Sierra, director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aging.

The department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service oversees more than 7800 animal holding facilities from zoos to circuses and aquariums, including roughly 1100 labs, some of them run by the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and PreveAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service oversees more than 7800 animal holding facilities from zoos to circuses and aquariums, including roughly 1100 labs, some of them run by the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Preveanimal holding facilities from zoos to circuses and aquariums, including roughly 1100 labs, some of them run by the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

Tonsor says several factors are contributing to the increased prices, such as the drought, the historically low number of cattle and recent animal health diseases.

«When we examined the associations of the three food categories with heart disease risk, we found that healthy plant foods were associated with lower risk, whereas less healthy plant foods and animal foods were associated with higher risk,» said Ambika Satija, ScD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the study's lead author.

«Estrogens perform important biological functions not only in sexual development and reproduction, but also in modulating many other processes impacting health and diseases in human and animals,» Beinhauer said.

Martin Kaplan, a rabies consultant to the WHO, recently told a joint meeting in London of the Royal Society of Health and the British Small Animal Veterinary Association that the risks of a properly vaccinated animal becoming infected and transmitting the disease are «vanishingly small&rAnimal Veterinary Association that the risks of a properly vaccinated animal becoming infected and transmitting the disease are «vanishingly small&ranimal becoming infected and transmitting the disease are «vanishingly small».

These events bring together technology developers and animal and human health experts in local hack - a-thons to create digital disease surveillance tools.

The Federal Select Agent Program is jointly run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

«Now that we have a better understanding of how an animal is built we can get some way closer to knowing how the human body works in health and disease,» says John Sulston, director of the Sanger Centre at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, England.

«The fact that we could alleviate inflammation by adding back a single key bacterial strain, suggests that it could be useful as a probiotic for inflammatory diseases,» said Rolig, who, along with Eisen, is a scientist in the National Institutes of Health - funded Microbial Ecology and Theory of Animals Center for Systems Biology, known as the META Center, which Guillemin heads.

Dramatic calorie restriction, diets reduced by 40 percent of a normal calorie total, have long been known to extend health span, the duration of disease - free aging, in animal studies, and even to extend life span in most animal species examined.

Other explanations, such as a more virulent strain or changes in land use, agriculture, or animal health systems, seemed implausible, they said, and the disease had struck primarily in those areas that had heated up the most.

«This study importantly shows the disconnect between tracking diseases in animals and in people,» writes Craig Stephen, a veterinary epidemiologist at the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative in Saskatoon who was not involved in the work, in an e-mail.

Animal health specialists meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, yesterday agreed to try to rid the world of peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a viral disease devastating goat and sheep flocks throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

But scientists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore now say the animals were afflicted by a disease and that there is no sign, so far, of any harm to human health.

«It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,» predicts Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong.

They note that strengthening veterinary capabilities would also benefit efforts to combat other diseases, such as foot - and - mouth disease, and improve animal health overall.

Last month, the World Health Organization urged farmers to completely stop using antibiotics to enhance growth and prevent disease in healthy animals.

The EPA is convening an advisory panel to evaluate the human and animal data on arsenic risk for non-cancer diseases to determine whether the 10 ppb limit is adequate to protect human health, says Aaron Barchowsky at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), researchers in the UPV / EHU's «Nutrition and Obesity» Group, which belongs to the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabetes.

The current study, and studies like it that use animal models, could contribute to determining human health risks and developing policies leading to a reduction in both exposure to THS and disease.

Understanding cattle movement patterns as well as the connectivity of the various sectors of the U.S. cattle industry and incorporating these in the models would allow USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) to develop more effective regulations and control strategies for various animal diseases, including boviAnimal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) to develop more effective regulations and control strategies for various animal diseases, including bovianimal diseases, including bovine TB.

The current SNP map now makes it possible for genome - wide association studies to identify genes responsible for diseases and traits, with important consequences for human and companion animal health.

We must remind Americans that animal studies remain necessary to develop scientific knowledge to combat disease and improve health.

If approved after a 30 - day comment period, the new policy would allow the National Institutes of Health to fund researchers who want to put stem cells in early - stage animal embryos to study disease, possible therapies and organ transplants.

Transfer the data obtained to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Departments of the individual states in order to monitor the prevalence of prion diseases in the USA and investigate possible cases in which the disease has been acquired from other humans or from aDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Departments of the individual states in order to monitor the prevalence of prion diseases in the USA and investigate possible cases in which the disease has been acquired from other humans or from adisease has been acquired from other humans or from animals.

Among the newly funded investigations are: the development of animal models of diabetic eye disease to learn how fenofibrate, a drug clinically - approved to treat cholesterol, protects the eye from diabetes - related damage; the development of a specialized camera to capture how the retina's rods and cones (responsible for turning light energy into shapes and colors) work in health and how they fail in retinal diseases; and the exploration of mechanisms by which intestinal tract bacteria impact the health of the eye.