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1. Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases launches new look for iiad.tamu.edu
High Plains Journal
June 15, 2016
Recently, the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence, launched a new look for its website, iiad.tamu.edu.
The newly designed website offers a fresh look at the Institute's portfolio of work and streamlined way to navigate through content.
"The redesign of iiad.tamu.edu not only brings an updated look to the website," said Gerald Parker, DVM, Ph.D., M.S., IIAD interim director. "It also provides a great potential to enhance the visibility of our work and lays groundwork that I believe will really benefit the Institute as we continue to expand our network of partners and research projects in the global agriculture and public health arena."
In addition to hosting a wealth of information about the Institute's projects, iiad.tamu.edu also provides visitors with a resource library containing reports from past meetings and workshops, a network of investigators who collaborate with the Institute, an event calendar containing IIAD and industry events, along with information about career and internship opportunities. The website's homepage also includes improved avenues for showcasing the Institute's newest products, projects and educational opportunities.
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2. Media Advisory: Special Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting on CWD June 20
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission News Release
June 16, 2016
AUSTIN- The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will hold a special meeting on proposed Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) rules related to Chronic Wasting Disease, specifically regulating the artificial movement of deer under TPWD permits, including Triple T (trap, transfer and transplant), DMP (deer management permit), TTP (trap, transport and process) and deer breeder permits.
At its regular meeting last month, Commission Chairman T. Dan Friedkin postponed formal action on the proposed rules to allow members of the Commission more time to review the department's proposal and meet with additional stakeholders. Members of the public are invited to attend this special meeting and give their input on the proposed rules. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to address the Commission.
WHAT: Special Meeting of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission
WHEN: 9 a.m., (CST) Monday, June 20, 2016
WHERE:
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
Commons Learning Center
Big Tex Auditorium (Room 1.102)
10100 Burnet Road, Bldg. 137
Austin, TX 78758
All visitors must use the Burnet Road entrance to the campus and receive a parking permit at the security booth. Parking will be available in the lot directly adjacent to the Commons Building.
A live audio stream will be available on the TPWD website. [ Home page: http://tpwd.texas.gov/ ]
The TPWD News Team will be live-tweeting the commission meeting at https://twitter.com/TPWDnews. All commission meeting tweets will be identified by the hashtag #TPWcom.
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3. Phibro Animal Health Joins GlobalVetLINK's VFD System
By Lily Scott
GlobalVetLINK News Release
June 16, 2016
GlobalVetLINK (GVL�) and Phibro Animal Health Corporation announced today a partnership for GVL's electronic Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) System, FeedLINK�.
In preparation for the final VFD implementation on January 1, 2017, Phibro joins GVL in providing the industry with a solution to help make compliance as simple as possible. Phibro's participation ensures that all label information and instructions for its products requiring a VFD will be complete in the system.
"GVL provides a proven system to help our customers manage and implement the VFD process. Partnering with GVL provides a seamless transition to VFDs for our customers so they can maintain the health of the animals in their care," said Larry Miller, President, Animal Health at Phibro.
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4. Feds detail range of steps to limit antibiotic resistance
Robert Roos, News Writer
CIDRAP News
June 16, 2016
Federal officials at a congressional hearing this week outlined a range of measures to combat antimicrobial resistance (AR), such as increased laboratory capacity, a national genome sequencing database, and an incubator program to help get new experimental drugs into clinical testing.
The battle to save antibiotics gained new urgency recently with the discovery of the MCR-1 resistance gene in human and swine bacteria in the United States, which prompted the Jun 14 hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
"The detection of this new antibiotic-resistant gene is troubling because it signals the potential arrival of an unstoppable superbug. This gene is resistant to a last-resort antibiotic [colistin] and has the ability to move from one bacterium to another," Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said in a press release about the hearing.
Scientists reported just 3 weeks ago that the MCR-1 gene was found in Escherichia coli from a Pennsylvania woman who had a urinary tract infection and also in E coli from a pig.
The subcommittee heard from representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Beth Bell, MD, MPH, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC, said in her prepared statement that the Pennsylvania woman's infection did not involve carbapenem-resistant Enterobactericeae (CRE) and was not resistant to all antibiotics.
But she added, "The presence of the mcr-1 gene, however, and its ability to share its colistin resistance with other bacteria, such as CRE, raises the possibility that pan-resistant bacteria could develop."
She also commented that the woman's MCR-1 E coli isolate did not match the one found in the pig. A second MCR-1 pig isolate is now being analyzed, she added, but the CDC said earlier this week that it is not as resistant as the first pig isolate.
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5. UCD vet hospital names new chief medical officer
By Special to The Enterprise
Davis Enterprise
June 17, 2016
The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine announces that Dr. Jane Sykes has been appointed as the chief veterinary medical officer of the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, effective June 1, for a five-year term.
She served as interim director of the hospital for the past year, following Dr. David Wilson, who was appointed director of Veterinary Medical Center facilities planning, as UCD looks to the future of the hospital, envisioning a state-of-the-art Veterinary Medical Center.
As chief veterinary medical officer, Sykes has administrative responsibility for the management and fiscal integrity of the Vet Med Teaching Hospital, ensuring the academic quality of the clinical learning environment for DVM students and house officers, and the provision of clinical care and operational efficiency of all academic and clinical service activities.
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6. U.S. meat, poultry industry represents $1.02 trillion in total economic output
By North American Meat Institute
Drovers CattleNetwork.com
June 16, 2016
The U.S. meat and poultry industry accounts for $1.02 trillion in total economic output or 5.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), according a new economic impact analysis conducted by John Dunham & Associates for the North American Meat Institute (NAMI).
The meat and poultry industry is responsible for 5.4 million jobs and $257 billion in wages, the report found. An estimated 527,019 people have jobs in production and packing, importing operations, sales, packaging and direct distribution of meat and poultry products. Wholesaling directly employs an estimated 232,418 individuals in all 50 states, and 1.11 million employees' retail jobs depend on the sale of meat and poultry products to the public. All totaled, the meat and poultry industry (packers, processors, wholesalers and retailers) directly employs 1.9 million people, paying $71.63 billion in wages and benefits.
In addition, approximately two million full-time equivalent jobs are created in firms that supply goods and services to the meat and poultry industry. This includes people working in industries as broad as real estate services, trucking and container manufacturing. An additional 1.57 million people have jobs throughout the economy that depend on the re-spending of wages by meat and poultry, as well as supplier industry employees. These are real people with real jobs ranging from restaurant workers to automobile mechanics, to bakers and refrigerator manufacturers.
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7. Cyanobacteria can be toxic to livestock, wildlife, humans
By NDSU Extension
AgWeek.com
June 16, 2016
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can produce toxins that are harmful to livestock, wildlife and people.
Blue-green algae often occurs in stagnant ponds or dugouts with elevated nutrient levels, forming large colonies that appear as scum on or just below the water surface, according to Carl Dahlen, North Dakota State University Extension Service beef cattle specialist. Live cyanobacteria are green and turn blue after they die and dry on the water surface or shoreline.
Although cyanobacteria typically are a concern beginning in mid-July, an algae bloom in Walsh County recently tested positive for toxic cyanobacteria production, says Brad Brummond, agriculture and natural resources Extension agent in Walsh County.
Blue-green algae's toxicity depends on the species drinking the water, and the concentration and the amount of water ingested.
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