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(2022-06-07)Since the 1990s the Onderstepoort Animal Blood Bank (OABB) has been the saving grace of many dogs, cats, and even prized stud sheep, horses and cattle in need of life-saving blood transfusions. The OABB is housed in the ...
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(2022-05-20)Three University of Pretoria (UP) veterinary science alumni recently reunited in the US to relieve a hefty African elephant of “toothache” by combining their skills in animal care to extract one of its tusks. Faculty of ...
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(2022-05-23)The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has awarded Dr Gideon Brückner, an alumnus of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science, the OIE Gold Medal for 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
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University of Pretoria-led study reveals COVID-19 Delta variants transmitted from humans to animals (2022-01-18)A team of scientists from the University of Pretoria (UP) has published the only study from Africa that entailed genomic One Health investigations which reveal that Delta variants of COVID-19 were transmitted from humans ...
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(2022-03-25)Pets are inquisitive by nature and sometimes their curiosity leads to unexpected injuries or getting into emergency situations. Sometimes after hours. In these situations, it is vital that they receive rapid and effective ...
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(2022-06)The wellness issue / Christiaan Bronkhorst -- This is hard / Kreshalia "Cow" Ephraim -- Covid getting long in the tooth? / Christiaan Bronkhorst -- Throw a dog a bone / Meerkat staff with assistance from BIG -- We can haz ...
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(2022-05-06)The National Research Foundation (NRF) has awarded Professor Johan Schoeman of the University of Pretoria (UP) a B1 rating for the 2022 – 2027 period, the highest rating ever achieved by a veterinary clinician-scientist ...
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(2022-05-05)The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science has heralded a new chapter in the education of veterinary nurses in South Africa by conferring veterinary nursing degrees (BVetNurs) on the country’s first ...
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(2022-05-04)The National Research Foundation (NRF) has awarded Professor Johan Schoeman of the University of Pretoria (UP) a B1 rating for the 2022 – 2027 period, the highest rating ever achieved by a veterinary clinician-scientist ...
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(2022-05-03)The University of Pretoria (UP) has conferred the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Science (honoris causa) on Emeritus Professor Jacobus Andries Wynand (Koos) Coetzer for his national and international scientific, teaching ...
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UP veterinarians’ emergency surgery saves Nero, an adorable Yorkie almost fatally felled by a bone (2022-04-15)University of Pretoria (UP) veterinarians recently saved the life of Nero, a Yorkshire terrier, after he swallowed a bone that ended up stuck at the base of his oesophagus, just above his heart. Nero was presented at UP’s ...
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(2022-04-08)As part of a vaccination drive against rabies, residents of Bronkhorstspruit (50 km east of Pretoria) and surrounds recently lined up to receive free care and advice for their cats, dogs – and even a parrot. The initiative ...
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(2022-04-07)A specialist at the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science has created a unique offering for horse owners: an equine cardiology consulting service called EquiCardio, which provides comprehensive ...
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Male infertility and semen evaluation : andrology in the age of precision medicine and agriculture (2021-10-21)Infertility has been considered a chronic disease for millennia, and remedies have been sought, both holistic/spiritual and medicinal. Infertility testing is not a modern concept either, with the first test method on ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-01)The first vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have now received emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA) and national authorities in China, India, UK, and ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-02)No abstract available.
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(MDPI, 2021-03)Equine encephalosis virus (EEV) is a neglected virus endemic to South Africa and is considered to generally result in mild disease in equines. Specimens were analyzed from live horses that presented with undefined ...
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(MDPI, 20-04)Rift Valley fever phlebovirus (RVFV) infects humans and a wide range of ungulates and historically has caused devastating epidemics in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Lesions of naturally infected cases of Rift Valley ...
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(MDPI, 2021-02)Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs) may cause acute, often lethal, hemorrhagic disease (EEHV-HD) in young elephants. Prevalence of EEHV in different elephant populations is still largely unknown. In order to ...
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(MDPI, 2021-08)Since its first discovery by Arnold Theiler in 1918, serum hepatitis also known as Theiler’s disease has been reported worldwide, causing idiopathic acute hepatitis and liver failure in horses. Recent studies have suggested ...