Foot and Mouth Disease in Dairy Cows
Foot and Mouth Disease is a severe, highly contagious viral disease-causing economic losses to the farmers. The disease is common in crossbred cattle whereas the native breeds of cattle suffer...
Health Management
Rumen Manipulation to Enhance Feed Conversion Efficiency
Introduction Rumen is well recognized as an essential fermentation vat that is capable of preparing end-products particularly volatile fatty acids and microbial proteins as major energy and protein for the...
Tick Infestation in Cattle And Its Control – An Overview
Tick Infestation in Cattle Ticks are the most important external parasites commonly found in cattle and are responsible for severe economic losses both through the direct effects of blood-sucking and...
Animal Management in Summer
Animal management during summer requires special attention. Summers are hot and long in North-Western India. Here the atmospheric temperature rises to higher than 450 Celsius. Animals become stressed in this...
COVID-19 Pandemic: Veterinarian Perspective
COVID 19 Pandemic Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, out of which some cause cold-like illnesses in people, while others cause illness in certain types of animals, such as...
Participation of Veterinarians in Assisting Medical Professionals During Pandemics
Today’s global world has also thrown serious challenges to human and animal health and environment. The most important challenge is serious communicable diseases transmitted from animals to humans. All the...
Is Extensive testing of Susceptible Population Critical to Control an Epidemic?
Evidence Based Medicine I am an admirer of Dr. David Sackett, who is regarded as the Founder of the discipline of clinical epidemiology. His major contributions to the public health...
Epidemic Curves: A Simple Investigation Tool
Epidemic Disease of Animal The veterinarians are called upon to investigate animal disease outbreaks. Here are some important tips to handle an epidemic: The disease is called epidemic when the...
The Corona Virus of Current COVID-19 Pandemic could not have been Created in a Laboratory
Corona Virus of Current COVID-19 There is a conspiracy theory going around that the Corona Virus (now named SARS-COV-2) which is the cause of the current Corona pandemic (now named...
Animal Health Internet of Things
Internet of Animal Health Thing You must have heard the term ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) in the context of consumer products, durable goods, cars, elevators, trucks, refrigerators, garages, personal physical...