A single-dose vaccine developed by researchers at the University of the Sunshine Coast, that is designed to help protect koalas from chlamydia, recently received approval from the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicine Association. Chlamydia is a widespread bacterial disease affecting koalas both in the wild and in captivity that can cause urinary tract infections, infertility, […]
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Do your staff feel like they’re running on a hamster wheel that’s spinning faster than ever? Rest assured, you’re not alone! These days, clinic teams are stretched thinner than a cat’s patience at bath time. With ever-growing lists of responsibilities, staff are pulled left and right throughout the day, and too often it’s away from their true value offering: providing top-notch care to patients […]
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This month A Day in the Life heads to Western Australia, where Zoe Devine works as a Behavioural Vet at Animal Sense near Fremantle. Devine was inspired to become a veterinarian at the age of six after watching Harry’s Practice on television after school and fulfilled a childhood dream when she graduated from Murdoch University’s […]
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The other week I was lucky enough to get to the NZVA Conference in Christchurch. Over three days, 14 different streams provided hundreds of attendees with first class and thought provoking content to help keep their interest alive. Some of it was super technical- geeky stuff about data and binomial distributions and long tails and […]
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Donations made to the Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal will be distributed across five research grants this year to fund projects that include the development of a ‘bait’ vaccine. This will differ from the vaccine type developed several years ago that aimed to slow the progression of the facial tumour disease that has ravaged populations […]
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