Tag: animal shelter medicine
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A Why and How For Famciclovir In Kittens
Written by Dr. Michelle Meckelborg Feline Upper Respiratory infection (URI) has long been an important disease complex in shelter medicine. Historically, efforts were focused on identifying pathogens and crafting effective treatment protocols with many shelters defaulting to euthanasia to prevent spread of disease. With greater understanding of the negative effects of sheltering animals came the…
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Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) and You – How Shelters Should Manage Birds During HPAI Outbreaks
Bird Flu and You – How Shelters Should Manage Birds During HPAI Outbreaks
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Welcome To Being A Mini-Public Health Agency
By Dr. Linda Jacobson DVM I recently learned a new term: epistemic trespassing. “Epistemic trespassers are experts who pass judgment on questions in fields where they lack expertise.” (I don’t know the term for non-experts who pass judgment on questions in fields where they lack expertise!) We are all super-familiar with this behaviour during COVID-19.…