Trivia Winners!

The World Organization for Animal Health, or OIE, is an important international organization for the surveillance of transboundary and emerging animal diseases.  It has the authority to officially declare a country free of four diseases.  What are the four diseases, and which of them (if any) have been present in the United States in the past or present?

Answer: The four diseases are Rinderpest, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia, and Foot and Mouth Disease. All have been present in the United States except for Rinderpest.

Congratulations to Olga Vinogradova from the University of Illinois and Brittany Beavis from Washington State University.  They were randomly chosen from the correct submissions and will be receiving $20!

Congrats Glasgow for most submissions to Issue 47 Volume 4

Congratulations to the University of Glasgow for having the most submissions to the latest volume of The Vet Gazette!  Their SCAVMA chapter will be receiving $200! 

Thanks to everyone who submitted pieces for this issue, check back in the next week for the winners!

Summer Experiences

Stephen Reichley
The Ohio State University, '14


Do you ever wonder what you will be doing after graduation? Consider a career in aquatic animal health. Almost 86% of the seafood consumed in the United States is imported, leading to a $9 billion trade deficit.  There are only so many fish in the sea; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates 84% of the world’s fish stocks are fully exploited or overexploited.  Aquaculture currently accounts for over half of the world’s fish supply and is the fastest growing area of agriculture in the world.

With the global population on the rise and the fact that the feed conversation ratio of fish is better than beef, swine, and poultry, aquaculture is the natural industry to supply the world with quality protein.

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Forum

"We receive hundreds of emails each week, we study on computers (likely with earphones in our ears), some of us have fully computerized notes, we navigate with our GPS, communicate with Skype, and do just about everything on smartphones. What do you think of all this technology in a vet student’s life? Making things easier or more complicated? Do you prefer to communicate and study electronically or would you be much happier unplugged?"

Stephanie Silberstang
Cornell University, '13

This past year I decided to try something new. I wanted to go paperless, or as close to paperless as I could. My main motivation was to reduce my carbon footprint on the world. I pursued this goal in many other aspects of my life including composting at home, walking and taking public transportation when possible and participating in a local farm share. In addition to becoming environmentally friendly, I thought it was important to embrace technology to prepare for the future of veterinary medicine that includes paperless medical records. However, my first step to pursuing this goal within my academic career was to not buy my course notes, which were hundreds of pages of printed notes. Instead, I decided to bring my laptop to lecture every day to view PowerPoint slides and to take notes digitally. This easy step saved me one hundred dollars!

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From Davis to Nicaragua: Forging Partnership in Veterinary Care

David Kim
UC Davis, '14

About a year ago, Eric Eisenman, a fellow classmate, approached a few students, including myself, about forming a student-run project to provide free veterinary care to a developing country.  We had just attended a lunch talk given by Dr. Richard Bachman, who spoke of his experience with Oregon State’s IVSA program that organized international veterinary trips.  It seemed strange that UC Davis did not have a similar program, and we were all eager at the idea of starting something new.  The amount of work for our group, which we named International Veterinary Outreach (IVO), seemed daunting as we began the long process of becoming a 501(c)(3) as well as planning inventory, permits, and fundraising, but slowly, things started to fall into place.  Through a mutual connection, we were able to make some contacts in Jiquillio, a small fishing village on the northwest coast of Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the western hemisphere. 

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