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Here you will find a good article on calf diphtheria.

Is babesiosis a zoonotic disease?

1.   Check out the Merck Veterinary Manual .

2.   Here is an article about a unique method of vaccination.

3.   Here is some information about Mannheimia and respiratory disease.

4.   Here is some more information about bovine respiratory disease.

  5.   Of course, there is some more information at this site about respiratory disease in cattle.

  6.   The Center for Veterinary Medicine can be found here.

  7.   Read about a genetically engineered shipping fever vaccine here.

  8.   Read about updated information concerning drug use in food animals here.

12.   Check out the this website for information about traumatic reticuloperitonitis.

10.   Check out the this website for information about bovine differential diagnosis.

11.   Here is the link to the Penn State dairy nutrition website and the videos about nutrition.

13.   Here is the link to an interesting article about vagus indigestion and if you are clever             you can back up to a story about a goat.

  9.   Check out this website for information on possible externships in large or mixed               animal practice.

14.   For information on nutritionally related dairy cattle diseases check this one.

  15.    Further information on abomasal displacement can be found on this website.

16.   The Colorado State University Diagnostic Laboratory publishes Lablines.                             Recently there were several articles about BVDV and testing to discover                               persistently infected animals.

  17.   Further information on Plum Island Animal Disease Center can be found on this                     website.

18.   For information on Johne's disease go here.   Check the frequently asked  questions              about Johne's disease.

  19.   Check this website for more Johne's disease information.   What are the most rapid                and least costly tests for an individual cow showing clinical signs of the disease?                    What test gives the best positive predictive value?

  21.   For information about calf scours, check this website.

22.  Another website with useful information about a commercial product to aid in the                prevention of calf scours can be found here.  

23.  What is the significance of the six diseases that can be transferred via colostrum and             non-pasteurized transition, whole, or waste milk?

20.   Here is an excellent reference on colostrum management.  What are the two most               important factors in immunoglobulin transfer?

28.    A veterinary clinic's approach to treatment of milk fever can be found at this website.

24.   For information on bovine ketosis and the Ross test (Rothera test) check this. 

26.   What does a cow's chomosomes have to do with ketosis?    Ohio State has                            information about the risk of ketosis with several dairy cow diseases.

25.   Still more information on ketosis can be found here.

29.    For information on downer cows check this out.

30.    At the University of Wisconsin what devices are used in the supportive care of

        downer cows?

31.   For more information about downer cows you can check this reference.

27.   Here is an excellent reference on transition cow metabolic problems.

32.   Here is the link to vaca resources, Dr. Donald Sanders from Urbana, Ohio.

33.   Here is a link to information about the arterial circulation to the sheep lung.

       Here is a link to information about the arterial circulation to the pig lung.