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Latest Veterinary News & Clinical Insights

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Antimicrobial Stewardship Is Not a Burden. Ontario Just Made That Official.

In April 2026, the CVO updated and reissued its position on antimicrobial stewardship — and the change was not about adding restrictions, increasing oversight, or issuing new penalties. It was about language. Specifically, it was about reframing what antimicrobial stewardship actually is.

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The Antibiotic You Gave May Not Have Been Necessary. This Study Is Building the Science to Prove It

High-risk cattle arrive. You do not know which ones are going to get sick. You do know that bovine respiratory disease is the most economically devastating illness in the beef cattle industry, responsible for the majority of feedlot morbidity and mortality and an enormous share of production losses across the entire sector. You know that by the time a calf is showing clinical signs, the disease is already ahead of you.

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Working together to combat the spread of antibiotic resistance

OHIS stands for One Health Integrated Surveillance, i.e. the monitoring of antibiotic resistance in the sense of a holistic, interdisciplinary One Health strategy. In addition to the BfR, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) are also involved in the network.

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Super-resistant bacteria found in wild birds at a rehabilitation center on the coast of São Paulo state, Brazil

Researchers supported by FAPESP have found antibiotic-resistant bacterial clones in wild birds at a rehabilitation center. The identified Escherichia coli clones have been found in community- and hospital-acquired human infections worldwide, and they were present in the intestinal tracts of a vulture and an owl.

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Feeding dogs raw meat associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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Antibiotic resistance E.coli in pet and stray dogs

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