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(2008-02-22)In 1911 the farm Armoedsvlakte ("Poverty flats") - so named because no cattle could be farmed there as a result of the disease lamsiekte (botulism) - was offered to Arnold Theiler for a year to conduct experiments. The ...
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(2008-03-13)There are no clinical signs specific for trypanosomosis. The disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic. Acute disease may be fatal after an illness lasting 2-6 weeks, or it may developed into the chronic phrase which may ...
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(2008-03-13)There are no clinical signs specific for trypanosomosis. The disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic. Acute disease may be fatal after an illness lasting 2-6 weeks, or it may developed into the chronic phrase which may ...
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(2008-03-03)The ARC-OVI owes its origin to the rinderpest outbreak that swept through South Africa in 1896. Its forerunner was a laboratory established at Daspoort by Arnold Theiler in 1897.
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(2008-02-04)Missionaries, such as David Livingstone, travelling in Africa, were among the first to encounter the many African diseases of livestock during their travels. Livingstone, in 1857, is wrongly credited with the first report ...
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(2008-01-23)Dr Gertrud Theiler was a world renowned parasitologist and published a massive series on ticks in Africa and their effects on animals.
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(2008-03-03)J. Georg van der Wath qualified (BVSc) at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Pretoria at Onderstepoort in 1934 and took up an appointment at the Allerton Veterinary Laboratory near Pietermaritzburg. In 1936 he ...
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(2008-02-11)On 15 October 1928 he was appointed Research Officer at Onderstepoort and later Professor of Medicine at the Veterinary Faculty at the Institute. He will best be remembered for his transmission work on dourine in equines. ...
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(2008-02-04)Dr. Duncan Hutcheon, MRCVS, qualified at the Royal Veterinary College (Royal Dick) in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1869. He came to the Cape Colony in 1880 to join the Colonial Service. An exceptional veterinarian in all respects ...
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(2008-02-11)Gilles van der Wall de Kock was one of the first two students to be sent abroad (to the Royal College in London) by the South African Government (in 1909) to be trained as a veterinarian. When the Faculty of Veterinary ...
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(2008-02-22)Dr Steyn obtained his BVSc degree in 1932 and was appointed GVO North Waterberg at the beginning of 1933. During 1934, after the Foot and Mouth campaign, he was transferred to Kimberley as GVO of the Northern Cape and ...
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(2008-02-04)Dr. Louis Pasteur, born in France, was one of the "fathers" of Bacteriology in the latter 1800's
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(2008-02-11)Dr. P.J. du Toit succeeded Sir Arnold Theiler as director of the OVI in 1927, a post he held until 1948. His main area of expertise was protozoology. He had also become Professor of Tropical Diseases at the Veterinary ...
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(2008-01-23)Getrud Theiler, younger daugther of Sir Arnold Theiler with her elder sister, Margaret and Thelma Gutsche. Thelma Gutsche was the author of the book "There was a man" which was on the life of Sir Arnold Theiler.
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(2008-03-28)Several methods have been or are used to control trypanosomosis. Some of these are: 1. Control of the vectors (i.e. tsetse flies [Glossina spp]) -- 1.1. Remove their source of food (i.e. blood of animals) by reducing the ...
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(2008-02-27)Trypanosoma brucei is a parasitic protist species and one of the important species which cause nagana or African animal trypanosomosis in human and animals in Africa. There are 3 sub-species of Trypanosoma brucei: T.b.brucei, ...
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(2016)Close up corner view of the main building at the ARC Onderstepoort Veterinary Research and Biotechnology Platform (formerly Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute)
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(2016)Distant front view of the main building at the ARC Onderstepoort Veterinary Research and Biotechnology Platform (formerly Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute) displaying a statue of Sir Arnold Theiler
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(2008-08-07)Clinical signs of heartwater in cattle is a fever of 40°C or higher which persits for 3-4 days before it falls to below normal shortly before death. Animals cease eating and a diarrhoea may or may not be present. Some ...
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(2008-05-16)The "clinical block" (or animal hospital) housed primarily large and small animals that were patients of the surgery department. Notice the lungering ring (circular "path") in the centre of the lawn.
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