Vilsack Weighs In On Parallel Between COVID-19 and Animal Disease Outbreaks

Weekly eNewsletter | February 8, 2021 | Volume 149

Vilsack Weighs In On Parallel Between COVID-19 and Animal Disease Outbreaks

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the country anything, USDA Secretary of Agriculture nominee Tom Vilsack said it’s that there is a tremendous amount of synergy between the circumstances of a pandemic involving humans and those involving animals.

During the Coalition for Epi Response, Engagement and Science (CERES) Biosecurity Infectious Disease Symposium at Colorado State University (CSU) on Jan. 28, Vilsack explored the parallels between the animal and human infectious disease pandemics with CSU Vice President for Research Alan Rudolph.

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Next-generation Sequencing to be Used to Detect Bovine Diseases

Transboundary and emerging diseases are constant threats to the livestock industry. Even as biosafety measures have evolved, there is always the lingering threat of highly contagious or newly discovered diseases impacting animal health.

Curt Pate to Headline Stockmanship Clinic

This winter, GrassWorks Inc. is offering several Zoom Graze Sessions to provide educational opportunities in the place of their 2021 Annual Conference. One of these sessions will feature Curt Pate, a well-known stockmanship clinician.

Nicaragua Counting on Bovine Traceability to Conquer US Market

At Maria Cristina Mena and Pedro Antonio Sevilla Molina’s San Antonio ranch located in the town of Morrito in Nicaragua’s Rio San Juan department, cattle roam fertile grasslands wearing numbered earrings, their ID.

All sheep and lambs inventory in Wisconsin as of January 1, 2021, totaled 86,000 head according to the latest USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service – Sheep and Goats report.