ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has named a veteran of the poultry industry a new executive director and state veterinarian. dr Marion Garcia has been a livestock veterinarian in the poultry industry for more than 20 years, a news release from the board said. She worked for a commercial poultry operation in veterinary school and continued …
WILLMAR — New confirmations of avian flu in Minnesota bring the number of infection sites to 34, including the sixth site in Kandiyohi County and the first reported site in Yellow Medicine County. According to the state Board of Animal Health, H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed Tuesday and announced Wednesday in five additional commercial poultry operations, and one …
Dr. Jane
December 28, 2021
Rochester vet Dr. Christine Vogel, thought it was time to speak out. It wasn’t just the rudeness and bad behavior that veterinarians and receptionists at client veterinary clinics had to deal with, but it was the real harm it did to the industry. “What I joke with a lot of people is essentially somewhere between social media and the idea …
Dr. Jane
December 25, 2021
The 5-year-old mutt saved the lives of all six Haegemans by warning them of a house fire. Devin and Hannah Haegeman and their four children – Emily, 9; Maddox, 4; Daniel, 2, and Marcella, 4 months – were woken up at 5 a.m. on December 22nd. In less than 10 minutes, the fire struck one end of the trailer. Devin …
The Mayo Clinic and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend everyone 6 months and older to get the flu vaccine. “Like COVID-19, influenza is a virus that causes respiratory disease. Symptoms can range from mild to severe or life threatening, ”said Dr. Sarah Scherger, pediatrician at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin. “The two …
A study by the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine published in the journal Virulence found that domestic cats were more susceptible to natural infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, at the start of the Minnesota pandemic. The researchers examined samples of archived blood serum – collected from 239 cats and 510 dogs brought to the university’s …
This is the second in a series of events to cover Minnesota Legends. The outstanding Minnesotans we can be proud of. Today a food inspector who not closed a teenage hot dog stand when a neighbor wanted it. (Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images) A thirteen-year-old Minnesotan, Jaequan Faulkner, wanted to make a little more money in July 2018. …
A Minnesota animal shelter has taken in several of the nearly 70 big cats seized last week by the Department of Justice (DOJ) from an Oklahoma zoo featured on Netflix’s popular “Tiger King” series. The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota, announced in a Facebook post on Monday that it had accepted “Several large cats, including tigers, lions, and large hybrid …
According to the school district, there are 22 students and staff in the elementary school in quarantine, which will continue with face-to-face lessons. Health Department officials say children under the age of 16 are not yet eligible for COVID-19 vaccination. They say the best approach is to make sure others are vaccinated, along with testing, social distancing, wearing face masks, …
Before he spent mornings chewing on stuffed toys, Henry the dog worried about surviving predator attacks, finding food and living through bad weather near an abandoned mine in Kentucky. His capture and journey to Minnesota took a year and a half, six trips south and thousands of dollars, but his rescuers with Minnesota-based Safe Hands Rescue say the effort to …
