New Issue of Healthy Animals Now
Online By Jim
Core January 30, 2004
The Agricultural Research
Service today posted a new issue of Healthy Animals at:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/han17.htm
This quarterly online newsletter compiles ARS news and expert
resources on the health and well-being of agricultural animals and fish.
Each quarter, one article in Healthy Animals focuses on a
particular element of ARS animal research. The current issue looks at
continuing advances at ARS in the fight against Marek's disease in
chickens.
Other research highlighted in this issue includes:
- Humane methods of rearing poultry in food production
systems.
- A method to track pathogen infections in live pigs.
- An expansion and upgrade of an ARS forage and livestock
research facility in Oklahoma.
- A look at how stable flies moved from being barnyard pests
to causing problems in pastures and rangeland areas.
- A new approach to experimental vaccines against exotic
Newcastle disease in poultry.
Professionals interested in animal health issues may want to
bookmark the site as a resource for locating animal health experts. An index
lists ARS research locations covering approximately 70 animal health topics.
These range from specific diseases, such as Lyme disease, to broad subjects
like nutrition or parasites. The site also provides complete contact
information for the more than 25 ARS research groups that conduct studies aimed
at protecting and improving farm animal health.
To receive an e-mail alert about each future issue's posting
online, contact Jim Core, ARS Information Staff, telephone 301-504-1619,
jcore@ars.usda.gov, or sign up online
at:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/subscribe.htm
ARS is the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's chief scientific research agency. |