By Marcia Hill Gossard, College of Veterinary Medicine PULLMAN, Wash. – A Washington State University-led research team determined rabies vaccines stored at warmer temperatures still protect against the disease in dogs.
PULLMAN, Wash. – More than 99 percent of the people infected with rabies get it from the bite of an unvaccinated dog. Washington State University believes it can prevent those infections.
By Laura Lockard, College of Veterinary Medicine PULLMAN, Wash. – Professor Tom Kawula will be the new director of the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health at Washington State University beginning Oct. 1.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Mention “toxoplasma gondii” and most people will give you a blank stare. Others will blame a cat.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – If a farmer’s goats, cattle or sheep are sick in Kenya, how’s the health of the farmer? Though researchers have long suspected a link between the health of farmers and their families in sub-Saharan Africa and the health of their livestock, a team of veterinary and economic […]
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Twenty-two years ago this month, residents of Milwaukee started falling ill with nausea, diarrhea and abdominal cramps. At first, a highly contagious intestinal virus was blamed. But as symptoms struck tens of thousands of people – closing schools and businesses and nearly bringing the city to a […]
By Charlie Powell, College of Veterinary Medicine PULLMAN, Wash. – Animal disease authorities both nationally and in Washington were already on high alert when in early December a large wild duck die-off occurred in northwest Washington.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Physicians and veterinarians alike will convene in Seattle for a conference Nov. 1 to discuss, among other things … penguins.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, WASH. – It is a disease spread by a virus that strikes mostly in faraway places. Without quick treatment, an infection delivers agonizing symptoms leading to death.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – A fungus found in semiarid parts of the Southwest that sometimes launches a lethal illness has been identified for the first time in Washington state soil, leading public health officials and an internationally known fungal expert at Washington State University to believe the organism is quietly spreading […]