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Alerts

  • Updates on testing cattle and cats for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)
  • Due to a reagent shortage, total bilirubin will be temporarily unavailable on the small animal, large animal, and donkey chemistry panels (SAP, LAP, DNKYP).
  • The Comparative Coagulation Laboratory will be closed 6/30. Samples received this day will be accepted and properly stored but results will be delayed. VWF: Ag testing normally scheduled for this day will be moved to 7/1.

Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus

(CT) Bovine Respiratory Syncytial virus (BRSV) infection was confirmed by PCR of lung tissue from a 5-month-old heifer that was representative of 10 sick calves with temperatures ranging from 103.4-105.5 and respiratory signs. In addition to the BRSV detection, Mannheimia hemolytica and Pasteurella multocida were cultured from lung tissue. This animal died spontaneously prior to treatment, briefly after being detected as sick. Others are being treated with antibiotics and some are reported to be responding favorably to treatment.