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Samples of hair, blood, and heart tissue are en route to the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Equine Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, where scientists studying cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in racehorses will apply their expertise to the overall picture of the 3-year-old colt’s death.

It is well understood that Echinococcus spp., a type of zoonotic parasitic tapeworm, spills over into humans through contaminated soil or water—and through their pets. But unlike humans, dogs are asymptomatic when infected with echinococcus, which makes it difficult to detect before a human is infected.

VBS faculty emeriti share what they have been up to since retirement.

The Center for Coronavirus Research (CCR) at the University of Minnesota was established in 2020 at the dawn of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Although studies in Europe and Asia have explored the role of rodent pests in zoonotic disease outbreaks, comparatively little research has investigated the rodent-agricultural interface in the United States.

A look back on the recent sabbatical of VBS Professor Tim Johnson, who spent one year on pursuing the field of applied poultry research at Cargill Health Technologies.

The Centers for Disease Control calls antibiotic (or antimicrobial) resistance “one of the biggest public health challenges of our time,” responsible for 2.5 million infections and more than 35,000 human deaths in the U.S. each year.

VBS Professor Yinduo Ji and his research team analyze Staphylococcus aureus, which is a critical human pathogen that can often cause skin and soft tissue infections and sometimes leads to serious systematic infections.

Recent studies have shown something called epiphyseal cartilage necrosis—lesions caused by lack of blood flow to joints—is the radiographically invisible precursor to juvenile osteochondritis dissecans.

The challenge arises from the unpredictability of swine influenza infections becoming zoonotic and, in some instances, turning into a human pandemic like the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak.