Veterinary Extension and Outreach
Veterinary Science Outreach incorporates animal diagnostics, on-farm field investigations, applied research, and Cooperative Extension to serve Pennsylvania‘s agricultural community by improving animal health and well-being, farm profitability and product quality.
VBS Extension and Outreach News
- ADL to Host Annual Veterinary Practitioner's Meeting January 19, 2012 ADL and PSU Veterinary Extension will host the 2012 Veterinary Practitioner's Meeting on Thursday, April 12th from 11:00-5:00 in the Centre County Visitors Center in State College, PA.
- PADLS-PSU Annual Practitioner Meeting January 13, 2012 The Animal Diagnostic Laboratory (PADLS-PSU) and Veterinary Extension at the Pennsylvania State University invite you and the veterinarians in your practice to attend our annual Practitioner’s Meeting. A variety of topics will be presented, including Animal Diagnostic Laboratory and Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife updates and regulatory information of importance provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
- FDA to protect important class of antimicrobial drugs for treating human illness January 4, 2012 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an order that prohibits certain uses of the cephalosporin class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys effective April 5, 2012.
- No chronic wasting disease found in PA wild deer during 2010 season April 25, 2011 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not found in samples taken from hunter-killed deer during the state's 2010 hunting season, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian. "We are pleased to report that Pennsylvania continues to have no confirmed or suspected cases of CWD in wild deer or elk," Cottrell said. "By conducting these tests from a random sample of hunter-killed deer and on all hunter-killed elk, we continue our efforts to find the disease in wild deer and elk in the state."
- Visit with Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at Ag Progress Days August 17, 2010 Members of the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Department will be presenting a short presentation at Ag Progress Days entitled Antibiotics in Agriculture: Blessing or Curse.
