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Antimicrobial resistance is the silent pandemic - Department vet
Rachel Donovan
The World Health Organisation is ranking AMR in the top 10 global health treats Caroline Garvan said at an Animal Health Ireland conference this week.
13 September 2024 News
Vet meds change draws fire from IFA and vet group, but for different reasons
Minister McConalogue's signing off of changes to veterinary medicine rules has drawn criticism from both the IFA and vets.
12 September 2024 News
UL pulls out of race for vet school
There are now three universities left in contention to house the country’s new vet school, with an announcement expected in the coming days.
Removal times for TB reactors on par with last year
The Department stated that reactor removal times are keeping pace, despite the 'logistical challenges' associated with removing 'considerably more animals' than recent years.
11 September 2024 News
€80m spent on TB control this year
An estimated €26m of the spend has come from farmers' payments to vets through testing fees.
11 September 2024 News
New large-animal vets opens in Donegal
Northwest Vets will service what it calls the growing demand for independent vet services in north Donegal and its Derry-Tyrone border region.
11 September 2024 News
Vets so busy they're 'nearly diagnosing by FaceTime'
A recent study has taken a deep dive into the needs of Irish dairy farmers and the challenges vets have meeting these needs.
4 September 2024 News
Merchants slam vets' take on medicines
Adam Woods has the latest on the vet medicines row between vets and merchants.
29 August 2024 Breeding & health
Blackleg: ensuring that vaccination is done properly
Blackleg is a peracute disease, meaning when animals get infected it generally proves fatal quickly. Rachel Donovan talks to Tipperary vet Damien Corcoran about prevention.
28 August 2024 News
Bluetongue a ‘serious threat to Irish cattle and sheep’ - McConalogue
It follows on from the announcement that a bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV-3) case had been confirmed in a sheep in Norfolk in the UK for the first time since March.
28 August 2024 News
New chief vet in town
The new chief vet has plenty to be looking at in the farming sector.
21 August 2024 Dealer
How drugs and TB changed Irish veterinary medicine
Up to the late 1940s, farm animals were generally treated by the local ‘handy man’ and vets were seen as no more than ‘horse doctors’, writes John Flaherty.
14 August 2024 News