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The article presents several research papers for veterinary medicines as of the week ending March 4, 2006 in Great Britain. The World Trade Organization has provided information on the mast cell tumor on dogs. Veterinarian David Halloy and colleagues studied the effects of treating respiratory diseases caused by bacterial infections in pigs with antibiotic ceftiofur. Animal doctor Marcela Uhart and colleagues describe the health status of several adult, free-ranging rheas.

The article presents several researches related to veterinary medicine. A four-point photographic scale was used to assess footpad dermatitis in broiler chickens at two processing plants in Great Britain. An investigation on the purported bias system in France that may lead to inaccurate estimates of the prevalence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep and goats in European countries has been done. A research on the lesion found in the oral mucosa of sheep is also conducted.

Little is known, historically, about the perceived and actual importance of disease prevention within general medical and veterinary practice, its constituent attitudes, practices and politics, and its relationship to disease cure. This paper addresses these issues through a study of veterinary preventive medicine. It focuses on the post-war attempts by leading British vets to reorient veterinary practice around a more preventive approach to livestock disease. I examine vets' motivations, their definition of preventive medicine, perceptions of its benefits and preferred delivery mechanisms. I also analyse official and farming attitudes to veterinary preventive medicine, and the extent to which it was put into practice. In so doing, I map out the largely unchartered history of the British post-war veterinary profession, and reveal the circumstances under which vets, farmers and the state were prepared to act on the longstanding belief that ‘prevention is better than cure.’ [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There is strong evidence to suggest that climate change has, and will continue to affect the occurrence, distribution and prevalence of livestock diseases in Great Britain (GB). This paper reviews how climate change could affect livestock diseases in GB. Factors influenced by climate change and that could affect livestock diseases include the molecular biology of the pathogen itself; vectors (if any); farming practice and land use; zoological and environmental factors; and the establishment of new microenvironments and microclimates. The interaction of these factors is an important consideration in forecasting how livestock diseases may be affected. Risk assessments should focus on looking for combinations of factors that may be directly affected by climate change, or that may be indirectly affected through changes in human activity, such as land use (e.g. deforestation), transport and movement of animals, intensity of livestock farming and habitat change. A risk assessment framework is proposed, based on modules that accommodate these factors. This framework could be used to screen for the emergence of unexpected disease events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The eradication of BVD in the UK is technically possible but appears to be socially untenable. The following study explored farmer attitudes to BVD control schemes in relation to advice networks and information sharing, shared aims and goals, motivation and benefits of membership, notions of BVD as a priority disease and attitudes toward regulation. Two concepts from the organisational management literature framed the study: citizenship behaviour where actions of individuals support the collective good (but are not explicitly recognised as such) and peer to peer monitoring (where individuals evaluate other's behaviour). Farmers from two BVD control schemes in the UK participated in the study: Orkney Livestock Association BVD Eradication Scheme and Norfolk and Suffolk Cattle Breeders Association BVD Eradication Scheme. In total 162 farmers participated in the research (109 in-scheme and 53 out of scheme). The findings revealed that group helping and information sharing among scheme members was low with a positive BVD status subject to social censure. Peer monitoring in the form of gossip with regard to the animal health status of other farms was high. Interestingly, farmers across both schemes supported greater regulation with regard to animal health, largely due to the mistrust of fellow farmers following voluntary disease control measures. While group cohesiveness varied across the two schemes, without continued financial inducements, longer-term sustainability is questionable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author discusses the common diseases among farm animals in Great Britain. He states the importance of continuous surveillance and research pertaining to the disease in animals and their treatments to control them to avoid ruining the health of human beings. He mentions the significance of the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy that advocates responsibility and cost sharing as a means of safeguarding animal health effectively.