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• Financial carrots to restore the Herriot factor?

  

  I began my veterinary career during the fading years of the James Herriot era, so I have been particularly interested in some of the postings that have been appearing around the world in recent days on the subject of dwindling numbers of food animal vets…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 16 Feb 2010
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• Antibiotic resistance. The debate goes on.

  

  Forty years or so ago, the Report of the Joint Committee on the Use of Antibiotics in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine was laid before the UK Parliament. It led to the setting up of extensive controls across Europe. Today in the US the debate cont…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 11 Feb 2010
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• Postscript to frogs and salmonellosis

  

  After a previous post on the occurrence of human salmonellosis following exposure to amphibians or reptiles being kept as pets, it may come as no surprise to Europeans - or a huge surprise to North Americans - that over 60 children in the United States be…

  By: Peter Beaumont
  Published: 03 Feb 2010
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• Physician, heal (it) thyself!

  

  US veterinarian, Patty Khuli, who writes a regular column in USA TODAY, has quite an agenda on the subject of human doctors treating their own pets and her piece, headlined ‘Vets pet peeve: When human physicians diagnose animals', is worth a read!…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 30 Jan 2010
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• US salmonellosis outbreak traced to pet frogs

  

  An outbreak of salmonellosis has occurred in the US, apparently associated with contact with pet frogs.…

  By: Peter Beaumont
  Published: 24 Jan 2010
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• OCD gene discovered in dogs?

  

  My attention has been drawn to an article in the New York Times which describes how researchers claim to have identified a gene which is shared by individual Doberman pinschers that exhibit the stereotypical behaviour of sucking their flanks.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 20 Jan 2010
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