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Study explores the livestock veterinarian shortage
Not all veterinarians care for dogs and cats. Some of the most important and often unseen veterinarians are involved in our food supply chains. These "food animal veterinarians” care for the health and welfare of livestock raised for food production. They are also the sentinels for infectious diseases, which contributes to the health of everyone.
However, there has been a lingering shortage of veterinarians in this pivotal career. These jobs are especially important as society's demand for safe, high quality animal protein is on the rise. Read the full study online.
USDA seeking input on CWD Herd Certification Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is holding five virtual listening sessions on the Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program standards in the next few months. The Zoom listening sessions are for anyone to offer insights into the future direction of the program, methods for increasing enrollment, biosecurity, CWD prevention, barriers, and other options for preventing interactions between farmed and wild cervids.
The listening sessions are scheduled and details of each are outlined below:
- July 27, 2023, at 11:00 a.m.
- The overall direction of the program.
- Increasing herd certification program participation.
- Biosecurity.
- Prevention of contact between farmed and wild cervids.
- Prevention of CWD not including genetics.
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August 10, 2023, at 2:00 p.m.
- Animal identification.
- Electronic ID.
- Annual and physical inspections.
- Inspection and inventory.
- August 17, 2023, at 1:00 p.m.
- Surveillance.
- Use of ante-mortem tests.
- Postmortem sampling.
- Penalties for HCP non-compliance.
- August 24, 2023, at 12:00 p.m.
- Disease response including use of predictive genetics to manage CWD positive, suspect, and exposed herds.
- September 14, 2023, at 2:00 p.m.
- Indemnity approach, including role of indemnity in predictive genetics herd management.
- Use of predictive genetics to prevent CWD within the HCP.
For more information on this or other listening sessions or to register for them, please visit USDA’s CWD topic page. If you would like to speak on one or more of the session topics, please indicate this on the registration form. The deadline to register to speak at the first listening session is July 20, 2023. The deadline to register for the remaining sessions will be one week prior to each session. Registration instructions and updated session information can be accessed on the Cervid Health Program website. Comments will be limited to 3 to 5 minutes depending on the number of requests to speak.
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