VetZone Podcasting

I Like My DNA With Farts

After this podcast, you will want all of your DNA served with a light crop dusting as well! Learn about one of nature's ingenious safety mechanisms regarding DNA. It is fun and no fart sounds,  we promise. ;)

There’s Nothing Humorous or Humoral About Poison Ivy

As one of Batman's enemies, Poison Ivy portrays an educational analogy on Cell Mediated Immunity (CMI), hapten toxins, and Type IV Hypersensitivity. Learn where Batman fits into this picture and much, much more.  

Harmful Algal Blooms

Algae live everywhere and are often harmless.  However, some cause severe disease in unsuspecting swimmers, anglers, and pescatarians. 

Bugs for Breakfast

Most horse owners know to check their hay for quality, but do you also know to check for little striped, beetles?

Water Treatment Facilities

Every civilization depends on clean drinking water.  Do you know the steps required for treating drinking water and wastewater?

Threatening Our Deer: EHVD

Imagine a beautiful summer evening.  You are sitting in your chair, listening to the birds and watching deer move in.  Such a peaceful, serene, relaxing evening.  Now, imagine the same idyllic scene with no deer. 

Nietzsche, and How He Helps Us Beat Ya, Malaria

There are hundreds of species of malaria. How many infect people? How many will it kill? How can Nietzsche help us? Learn all of this and more in the third installment of malaria vaccines!

Threat from the South: VSV

The US is currently battling another foreign animal disease outbreak.  Last week, vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) was identified in two horses in south Texas and one in New Mexico.

RTS,S/AS01 – Spells “How to Save Lives” and a “Great Way to Explain Vaccine Concepts”

In this second part to the new malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, we dive into some intricacies of the vaccine and review some common vaccine terms along the way. We even dispell a common veterinary vaccine myth. Fun stuff!

How Apocalypses Are Born

We are going to step back from the normal informational post and test your foreign animal disease (FAD) knowledge.  This post’s onus stems from my recent trip to Plum Island Animal Disease Center.  I was struck by each disease’s clinical signs, and how easily I would have inadvertently mis-diagnosed a FAD in practice.