The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted so many aspects of our daily lives. In the veterinary medicine profession, many veterinarians and their staff are doing curbside service. But this isn’t the first time the veterinary community has faced a pandemic. In the late 1970s to 1980s, parvovirus— a highly contagious virus that affects the gastrointestinal tract in dogs—emerged. It eventually was considered a pandemic because it reached dogs across the world. Our two guests from Dallas—Dr. Tony Myers and Kelly Richardson—take us back to that time: a time when veterinarians waited for a safe, effective vaccine to become available and scrambled to figure out what the virus was and how to treat it.
A big thank you goes to TVMA member Dr. Geoff Bratton from Dallas for this episode idea!
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Texas A&M Veterinary Lab Testing People For COVID-19
https://today.tamu.edu/2020/04/29/texas-am-veterinary-lab-testing-people-for-covid-19/
TVMDL, Physicians Preferred Laboratory, Ltd. establish partnership to increase human COVID-19 testing
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