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Latest Veterinary News & Clinical Insights
More Than 84% of Dogs Show Signs of Fear or Anxiety. New Research Says We're Not Talking About It Enough.
A study published in Veterinary Research Communications analyzed behavioral data from more than 43,000 dogs enrolled in the Dog Aging Project, one of the largest and most geographically diverse canine research initiatives in the United States. The finding that stands out most is also the one most likely to change how veterinary professionals approach routine wellness visits: more than 84 percent of dogs showed at least mild signs of fear or anxiety in everyday situations, excluding learned fears associated with grooming activities like nail trimming and bathing.
The CDC Surveyed Backyard Flock Owners About H5N1. The Knowledge Gaps Are a Problem
There are an estimated 2.7 million households in the United States with pet birds, and a significant portion of those households are keeping backyard flocks of chickens, ducks, geese, and other poultry with varying levels of understanding about what avian influenza actually looks like, how it spreads, and what to do when something goes wrong. Three of the 71 human H5N1 cases reported in the United States since March 2024 involved backyard flock owners. Two of those cases were fatal.
WOAH's 2026 State of the World's Animal Health Report Is Out. The Numbers Are Hard to Look At — and Impossible to Ignore.
The World Organisation for Animal Health released the second edition of its State of the World's Animal Health report this month, and the opening line sets the tone for everything that follows. The situation it describes, the authors write, is more urgent than the one they documented a year ago.
The USDA Is Launching the First National Equine Health Study in Over a Decade. Here's Why It Matters and How to Get Involved.
The last time the federal government took a comprehensive look at equine health across the United States, the iPhone 6 had just come out and the term precision medicine was still mostly theoretical. That was 2015. A lot has changed in equine veterinary medicine since then, and the data infrastructure supporting research, policy, and clinical practice has been running on eleven-year-old numbers ever since.
The CDC Just Documented Cat-to-Human H5N1 Transmission. Every Veterinary Professional Needs to Read This.
For the first time, public health investigators have documented serologic evidence of H5N1 transmission from a domestic cat to a human. The person infected was a veterinary professional. They were not wearing PPE over their mouth or eyes during the exposure. They never developed symptoms. And they almost certainly did not know it happened until a serosurvey months later confirmed it had.
An AI Model Just Diagnosed Dog Bone Fractures With 99.76% Accuracy. Here's What That Means for Veterinary Practice.
A research team publishing in Scientific Reports has developed a deep learning model that classifies long bone fractures in dogs with an accuracy of 99.76 percent. For context, that is not a marginal improvement over existing tools. That is near-perfect automated diagnostic performance on a task that currently requires a trained clinician, takes time, and is subject to the kind of variability that comes with any human interpretation of radiographic images.
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