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Two of Texas' estimated 153,000 cattle herds have been diagnosed with cattle tuberculosis since summer 2001, calling into question the state's "free" status for (TB) eradication.

An eye disease that struck eastern house finches in Maryland in 1994 may help expand scientists' understanding of a number of epidemic diseases in humans, animals and plants.

Boston-Veterinarians were one of the health professionals represented in a major study on use of calcium and risks of colon cancer.

London-Britain is considering lifting a six-month quarantine on pets arriving from the United States and Canada - in part under pressure from pet-loving diplomats.

University of Wisconsin-Madison veterinary clinicians are evaluating cancer radiation that can selectively irradiate tumors without interfering with other tissue.

Topeka, Kansas - Samples from eight Kansas cows suspected of having foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) were negative for the virus, officials report.

Bethesda, Md. - A U.S. government advisory panel is concerned that animal-to-human tissue transplants are proceeding without safeguards.

The Agricultural Research Service and the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute in South Africa have co-launched a study to produce vaccines for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Latin American veterinarians with plans to practice in the United States are one step closer to the border via participation in a distance-education program, TheHorse.com reports.

Boston - The drug-resistant salmonella bacteria is directly being linked to pigs, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

London– It's unlikely the transmission of mad cow disease will pass from one generation of cows to the next, according to new British research.

Denver-The recently-released second edition, Neurological Examination for the Busy Practitioner, is designed to be a quick-access reference tool for veterinarians who perform such exams.

East Lansing, Mich. - The West Nile Virus (WNV), which adversely affects a horse's neurological system, has been found in 18 states and Ontario, since it was first discovered in New York in 1999.

Rockville, Md. - FDA is ordering the prohibition of extra-label use of topical nitrofuran animal and human drugs in food-producing animals.

East Lansing, Mich. - Scientists at Michigan State University are testing the efficacy of pyrantel tartrate as a potential preventive treatment against Sarcocystis neurona in horses.

New York - A veterinary professor at Kansas State University is considering new medication and food alternatives to the current methods of treating osteoarthritis in dogs.

Louisville, Ky. - At least five of the 17 horses in this year's Kentucky Derby are relaxing on pins and needles of the therapeutic variety.

Davis, Calif.- Dr. Tilahun Yilma, a veterinary virologist who genetically engineered a vaccine for a deadly cattle disease and is now working to develop an AIDS vaccine, is named the 2002 Faculty Research Lecturer by the University of California, Davis.

London - Bovine tuberculosis (TB) has long baffled scientists bent on finding a vaccine to combat it - until now.

Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is amending regulations and standards pertaining to animal exports.

Lexington- Veterinarians and breeders would rather err on the side of caution as the foaling season nears in Kentucky, after 20 percent of mares in the region lost their foals last year.

Nervousness and emotional stress can drive a cat to go bald, although it's rather uncommon, reports the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

The National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues (NCVEI) has just released new analytical benchmarking and pricing tools.

The Food and Drug Administration intends to determine the safety of enrofloxacin for use in poultry via a proposed hearing to be scheduled later this year.

Washington, D.C. - The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed three separate complaints over a controversial cat experiment in progress at The Ohio State University.

Pueblo, Colo. - A House committee of the Colorado General Assembly is even more driven to increase the charges filed against animal abusers, after viewing a key "witness," Westy the cat.

Boston- The successful pig-to-human transplant of a genetically altered heart is within the foreseeable future, but that doesn't necessarily appease all scientists, according to experts.

Madison, Wis.- Two out of three isn't bad.

West Lafayette, Ind.- Purdue University researchers are determined to better understand how ractopamine, a feed additive, speeds growth in hogs and makes them leaner.

Tokyo- A mare's blood plasma sample can apparently just as accurately confirm when ovulation occurs as can a veterinarian's rectal palpation assessment, new research, reported by The Horse.com, shows.