The UK has had a reasonable summer. Emerging from 16 months of COVID restrictions, ill health, and deaths beside the economic uncertainties of Brexit; a largely vaccinated population has, so far, been allowed to return to life largely as it was before March 2020. Warmer weather is always welcome and […]
It’s over two years now since the appalling terrorist attack in Christchurch which killed 51 people in 2 mosques. One of the victims was a 16-year-old Syrian boy named Hamza Mustafa. His father was a farrier, and his mother a teacher, and Hamza had dreamed of becoming a vet. He […]
I recently came across a paper entitled, A loss-of-function mutation in RORB disrupts saltatorial locomotion in rabbits. What struck me was not saltorial locomotion (the hopping gait of rabbits and kangaroos) but the image of a rabbit walking on its forelimbs while the hindlimbs are lifted from the ground. I […]
New Zealand’s biggest earners are tourism and agriculture- in particular, livestock agriculture. Nobody needs reminding that tourism hasn’t been all that popular – or easy- for the past 12 months. But agriculture has never been more important. COVID has highlighted the precariousness of our global economy. Our supply chains are […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York issued a sweeping executive order that essentially put the state on a pandemic lockdown beginning Sunday, March 22. One week later, my friend Cyndi, an exotics pet specialist at the Animal Medical Center in New York, said that she and all other part-time veterinarians […]
