Respiratory Ailments
Protecting More Calves From Respiratory Diseases
It soon will be time to "work" the spring-born calves. New research is
available that suggests that the young calves may be vaccinated with
products used for protection against the respiratory diseases (IBR and
BVDV).
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Respiratory disease in calves and heifers
Early detection, rapid response and aggressive treatment are the keys to effectively treating bovine respiratory disease (BRD), more commonly known as pneumonia, says Tom Shelton, DVM, MS, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health.
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Hutches not immune to respiratory disease
Traditionally, grouping time is the peak of respiratory disease, says Tom Shelton, veterinarian and senior technical services specialist with Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health.
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Managing respiratory diseases in the herd
Year in and year out, diseases of the respiratory system are a major cause of illness and death in cattle from six weeks to two years of age, says Dr. Donald Montgomery, director of the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory.
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K-State researches bovine respiratory disease
Over the years, advances in biological, pharmaceutical and management systems have failed to eliminate the most common cause of post-weaning disease in cattle, Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex.
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Calf respiratory disease: SOPs or S.O.S?
Help your clients identify high-risk calves and manage those risks to keep respiratory disease at bay.
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A dairy producer’s view of respiratory disease
Bob Patrick, DVM, from Shamrock Animal Health Services Inc. in Georgia, says respiratory disease in dairy calves remains a large problem in the United States.
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What You Need to Know About Porcine Respiratory Disease
From my recent visits to intensive pig farms and conversations with other veterinarians, there appears to be a sharp increase in the number of porcine respiratory disease incidents over the past few months
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New Treatment Controls Swine Respiratory Disease
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer Animal Health’s Excenel RTU EZ (ceftiofur hydrochloride) for the treatment and control of swine respiratory disease.
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Early action to minimize respiratory disease losses (Animal health)
Among the pathogens involved in bovine respiratory disease complex, Mycoplasma bovis is notorious for being difficult to identify and challenging to treat.
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Respiratory Disease Interactions Add Difficult Twists (Herd Health)
As though fighting respiratory diseases in hogs wasn’t tough enough, now complex interactions make the task that much harder.
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