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The University College Dublin (UCD) School of Veterinary Medicine has marked 20 years since its move to UCD’s Belfield campus.

Leading equine researchers Drs Barry Ball, Craig Carter, David Horohov and Peter Timoney are retiring from the University of Kentucky’s Department of Veterinary Science.

Six outbreaks of CEM, an internationally reportable disease, have occurred in the United States in the past 15 years.

Horsetalk.co.nz Horse owners urged to vaccinate to reduce toll of West Nile virus Greater efforts are needed to encourage Kentucky’s horse owners to vaccinate against West Nile virus if continued losses from the infection are to be reduced or even eliminated, Professor Peter Timoney says. Until 1999, West Nile virus was unknown in the Western Hemisphere, much less the United States. In August of that year, the virus was identified in New York City and caused the deaths of seven persons from viral encephalitis (brain inflammation). Coincidentally, the virus was also implicated in th...

It is not surprising that equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) is so well adapted to infect horses. Professor Peter Timoney, with the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center at the University of Kentucky, says EHV-1 is believed to have co-evolved with horses over millions of years. This co-evolutionary relationship resulted in the development of a life-long carrier state in a high percentage of infected horses. This involves viral latency (silent infection) of various sites (the trigeminal ganglia in the central nervous system, respiratory lymphoid tissues, and CD3+ T lymphocytes in the blood). Laten...