The 13-year-old would visit almost every day this spring, bread crumbs and tortilla pieces in hand.
“Eventually, they recognized him,” his mother, Cheryl, said Thursday. “And they’d come out of the bank and eat out of his hand.”
The geese had the pond to themselves, and they were territorial. The mallards who tried sharing the water didn’t last long, she said, and the male goose once ran off a turkey. But they would often be there waiting for their new friend’s visits.
After the female laid her eggs, her mate would swim across to meet John first, but the female would later join them, too, waiting to be fed.
The arrival of a courier at the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus is the overture of a three-act performance.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
In March, nearly 40 individuals from across the country will meet with their legislators to urge Congress to take bipartisan action to prioritize the battle against antibiotic resistance: a looming global health threat that threatens the future of modern medicine. As part of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Stand Up to Superbugs initiative, this year’s ambassadors include health care professionals, public health officials, scientists, farmers and ranchers, veterinarians, superbug survivors, and people who have lost loved ones to an antibiotic-resistant infection. They will meet virtually with federal agency leaders and members of Congress to share their superbug stories and expertise, and urge increased commitment and momentum to preserve the effectiveness of existing antibiotics and develop urgently needed new ones.
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David Richardson, assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, visited the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on Dec. 18 to discuss the security and safety of the U.S. food system. Richardson, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary John Waters, toured the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center, Animal Science Complex, Nebraska Center for [.]