VMS 361 Agricultural Animal Health
2004 Lecture and Internet Supplement (Dr. J. Gay's portion)
Initiated April 19, 2004 Updated
08/10/04
Purpose:
The purpose of this web page is to provide supplemental on-line material for students
enrolled in VMS 361 Agricultural Animal Health. The material is added with the most recent on
top, the oldest at the bottom.
Note:
Assignments will be added as they are given in class.
Additional Materials:
Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex - On-line Veterinary Merck Manual
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/toc_121200.htm
Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex (BRD) (Merial)
http://us.merial.com/veterinary_professionals/veterinarians/cow_calf/disease_pdf/BRD_Complex.pdf
Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) in Stocker / Backgrounding Operations (BL
Larson, Missouri)
http://www.cvm.missouri.edu/.../Food%20Animal%20Diseases/Cattle%20Diseases/
Bovine%20Respiratory%20Disease%20I.doc
Pasteurella Disease in Beef Cattle (EJ Richey, Florida)
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_VM056
Cornell Consultant Terms
- Mannheimia haemolytica pneumonia, shipping fever
- Enzootic calf pneumonia, bronchopneumonia
- Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, IBR, Herpesvirus 1
- Enteric colibacillosis, calf or heifer scours
- Cryptosporidiosis, Cryptosporidium parvum- zoonosis
- Rotavirus, rotaviral diarrhea in calves, lambs, and kids
- Coronavirus infection in calves and cattle
Sanitation in the control of livestock infectious disease
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/FDIUSanitation.htm
Calf Scours - On-line Veterinary Merck Manual
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/23403.htm&word=calf%2cscours
Midland Bioproducts Corporation
http://www.midlandbio.com/
Colostrum Bovine IgG Midland Quick Test Kit
http://www.midlandbio.com/bovine_colostrum_igg.shtml
Calf Necropsy - Scours Work-up (Colorado State)
http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/ilm/outreach/necropsy/_notes/calfnecropsy-scours.htm
Reading Assignment for Friday, April 23, 2004:
Read "Basic Concepts for Cow-Calf Herd Health Programs" at:
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/FDIUCowCalfHH.htm1
On-line Browsing Assignment for Friday, April 23, 2004:
Browse through the following websites. Hand in the first page of one
website (or any website you find with a similar theme) in each of the three
sets below.
Quality Assurance Programs:
"By uniting animal scientists, veterinarians, feed suppliers, animal
health companies, packers and retailers with producers, the BQA program acts
as a catalyst to encourage that the latest in science and technology is used
to meet expectations about beef quality, wholesomeness and safety." NCBA
website
Browse through the following examples of on-line quality assurance
websites. Note that the private veterinarian is an integral part of most of
these programs. As a producer, you need to be aware of the impact of your
management practices on the consumer's perception of the quality of your
product.
Milk and Dairy Quality Assurance Program
http://www.dqacenter.org/
Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance
http://gpvec.unl.edu/bqa/ncbqa.htm
Beef Quality Assurance (Montana Beef Network - some PDF files are
corrupted)
http://www.montana.edu/wwwmbu/BQA.html
Animal Welfare Critical Control Points and Audits:
Animal welfare requirements and verification audits are being implemented
by large "fast food" chains as a condition of purchasing animal products. As
a producer, you need to be aware of these trends and their implications.
Food Marketing Institute - Animal Welfare
http://www.fmi.org/animal_welfare/
McDonald's Supplier Animal Welfare Requirements
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/values/socialrespons/market/animalwelfare.html
National Council of Chain Restaurants News (animal welfare)
http://www.nccr.net/newsite/
Temple Grandin
http://www.grandin.com/
Whole Foods Market standards
http://www.wholefoods.com/products/meat_aw-standards.html
Yum Brands Animal Welfare Program (A&W, KFC, Long John Silvers, Taco
Bell, Pizza Hut)
http://www.yum.com/community/animalwelfare_progress.htm
Livestock Farming Opposition:
I believe that it is important for the agricultural community to be
familiar with those issues and the perspectives of those in society whose
actions may be perceived as negatively impacting members of the agricultural
community, particularly if a general social shift occurs as a result of
these activities. The following are some examples of on-line websites
organized by activists against current livestock husbandry and use
practices.
Note that these groups are using animal disease outbreaks such as BSE
and Foot and Mouth Disease to promote their messages to the public.
FARM: Farm Animal Reform Movement (advocating a plant-based diet
and rights for farmed animals)
http://www.farmusa.org/
The No Milk Page (D Wiss)
http://www.panix.com/~nomilk/
PETA-Online (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
http://www.peta-online.org/
Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine (ND Barnard, MD
Vegetarian orientation)
http://www.pcrm.org/
The NOTMILK Homepage! (Robert Cohen, anti-dairy and
dairy product consumption)
http://www.notmilk.com/
The Public Lands Grazing Activist
http://www.grazingactivist.org/
Oregon Natural Desert Association
http://www.onda.org/
Waste of the West
http://www.apnm.org/waste_of_west/index.htm
Links Mentioned in Class
US Animal Health Association
http://www.usaha.org/
Reading Assignment for Wednesday, April 21, 2004:
Conditions for Producers' Use of Livestock Drugs
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/VMADProducerDrugs.htm
Assignment due Wednesday, April 21, 2004:
Using the URL's linked below under "Internet Resources":
1) Access Cornell Consultant, enter a disease of interest to you in a
species of interest to you and print out and hand in the first page of the disease description
and reference page for that disease.
2) Access PubMed, search for literature on the same disease, print out and
hand in only the first page of references for that disease.
(To print out only one page from your web browser, use the
"File" menu to access the "Print" submenu. On the Print
submenu, select "Print pages from ____ to ____" and enter
"1" in both boxes, then select "Okay"..)
3) Access an on-line proceedings of a national meeting or an extension
publications site, find a presentation
or publication of interest to you, print out and hand in only
the first page.
4) Access the second link to the Pioneer website and and print out and hand
in only the first page of that site.
Internet Resources: (April 19, 2004)
The Internet contains a wealth of materials relevant to this class and to your
interests in livestock health and disease. One reason that so much information relevant to
this class is on the Web is that a major mission of the agricultural extension service is
to communicate information to producers. The Internet provides an excellent mechanism
for doing that to the dispersed audience of producers. As a result, many very useful
extension publications are on the Web. The medical literature can also be searched for
free on-line through the National Library of Medicine. Because more than half of the
veterinary literature is cataloged by the NLM, you can locate and read the abstracts to
much of the veterinary literature. Cornell Consultant also provides an on-line means to
identify the most recent relevant clinical literature as selected by Dr. Maurice White, a
Cornell food animal clinician. As the WorldWideWeb matures, the amount and quality of
information will likely increase.
(Note to students - visit the following 4 websites for which the URL's are bolded; others
are optional for your browsing.)
Cornell Consultant: A Diagnostic Support System for Veterinary
Medicine (Dr. M E White; A unique resource to establish differentials and to identify
current papers on a disease)
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp
(visit this one)
Note on Searching: The disease names (diagnoses) in this database
are very specific. You can search by entering only part of the name, such as
"pneumonia", and select from the list of diagnoses that have these
terms in the name. The more technical terms, such as
"diarrhea", yield considerably more hits than do the more common
terms, such as "scours". You can also search by first selecting
the species and then selecting a set of clinical signs that accompany the
disease that you are interested in. The database has "lookup
tables" to help you select the right term for the clinical sign. For
example, entering "blood" brings up a list of clinical signs
associated with blood, whether it is in the feces, milk, urine, eye or where
ever.
Cornell Consultant has a direct link to PubMed and links to other on-line resources.
You can order the papers through PubMed, through the Cornell Flowers Library, or by
Adobe Acrobat PDF file through e-mail from the University of Washington at http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/forms/order.html.
The latter takes credit cards and a couple of days.
National Library of Medicine PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
(visit this one)
One of the great features of PubMed is the "related article" function that
enables you to find the closely related papers that they have indexed close to a good hit
that you have found. Over half of the recent major veterinary journals are indexed
here and the proportion is increasing.
Examples of On-line Proceedings of National Meetings (visit one)
Beef Improvement Federation (click on symposium papers
or archives)
http://www.bifconference.com/
Range Beef Cow Symposium XVIII
http://rangebeefcow.com/newspapersaudio.html
Western Canadian Dairy Seminar (University of Alberta - entire
95 - 03 proceedings are on-line)
http://www.afns.ualberta.ca/wcds/
To use, click on the "Proceedings" arrow on the left
margin, click on the proceedings year you desire and then click on
"Table of Contents" to see the list of presentations
Western Dairy Management Conference
http://www.wdmc.org/
Examples of On-line Extension Collections: (WSU is behind in this
regard)
University of Illinois NETS - On-line papers, links
NebGuide: Animal Diseases (Nebraska Extension Guides)
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/
Oklahoma State University Animal Science Publications - (Agribusiness, Beef,
Dairy, Horse, ...)
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/exten/publica.html
Examples of Company sites: (Note: The following are examples, not
endorsements!)
The internet is a logical way for an company to deliver product
information of varying detail efficiently to their agricultural
customers, who are otherwise widely dispersed across the country, on the
demand of the customer. Rather than being "push" driven, the
system is "pull" driven.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc.
(major source of seed for forage and grain crops)
http://www.pioneer.com/
Nutrition – Research and Technology
http://www.pioneer.com/usa/nutrition/
(visit this one)
Others:
Calf Notes (American Protein Corporation, Dr. Jim Quigley - formerly at the University of
Tennessee)
http://www.calfnotes.com/
My collection of example links:
WWWeb Sources for Agricultural Animal Veterinarians (115 KB - takes a
minute or so to load across a modem)
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/AgLinks.htm
Contains a collection of links to useful on-line materials for ag-animal veterinarians.
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