Latest News From Bovine Respiratory Disease

Zelnate DNA Immunostimulant is used to treat respiratory disease due to Mannheimia haemolytica. The label recommends use at or within 24 hours after a perceived stressful event in cattle 4 months of age and older.

Drs. Grant Dewell and Mike Apley, respectively, and Extension nutritionist Paul Beck weigh in on some things they believe contribute to the disease and how you can stem its development from the farm to the feedlot.

While vaccination is widely considered a critical component of cattle health management, could the timing of vaccination impact the efficiency of the product?

SpectoGard (spectinomycin sulfate) sterile solution—which received FDA approval in September of 2022—is now available for veterinarians and cattle producers in the United States.

Depressed, feverish calves with an increased respiratory rate? Your calves are likely fighting a case of 'summer pneumonia.'

Zoetis Draxxin KP is designed to control bovine respiratory disease and, specifically, fever.

Metaphylaxis remains a cost-effective tool for managing high-risk arrivals, but refinements could reduce the number of antibiotic treatments.

You can take preventive steps to protect calves from bovine respiratory disease (BRD), long before you ever reach for antibiotics.

When loads of stressed, high-risk calves arrive at the feedlot, it often makes economic sense to treat them all with antibiotics to prevent an almost-inevitable outbreak of bovine respiratory disease (BRD).

Cattle feeders first began using mass treatments for newly arrived calves back in the 1970s, as a means of controlling outbreaks of respiratory disease or “shipping fever.”

Animal welfare, sustainability and economics are affected when beef cattle suffer from bovine respiratory disease, or BRD.

Research and practical experience have shown a genetic component to the ability of individual cattle, or sire lines, to resist BRD pathogens.

We need to better address all three components of the disease triad.

While researchers and the industry work to develop systems to better prevent BRD, timely treatments with antibiotics will remain a critical tool for minimizing losses associated with morbidity.

Assessing the risk of cattle needing treatment for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) requires consideration of far more than exposure to patahogens.

While the cattle industry continues to refine preventive measures, treatments and overall management, feedlot morbidity, mortality and costs associated with bovine respiratory disease (BRD) stubbornly refuse to improve.

Merck has refined the Whisper system to serve as a decision tool for managing new arrivals.

While it is difficult to envision a healthier environment for nursing calves than a green summer pasture, bovine respiratory disease (BRD) remains a common problem in pre-weaned calves.

Scientists at Texas A&M University are testing new technologies at a feedlot in the Texas Panhandle to find ways to reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock and provide consumers with a healthy meat supply.

Seems like everyone these days uses some type of wearable electronic device to track their daily activities in pursuit of better health and fitness.

Bayer veterinarian discusses BRD, answers producers’ questions about the disease.

Acidosis is the result of oxygen deprivation and accumulation of carbon dioxide that results from passage of the calf through the birth canal.

Success in bovine respiratory disease treatments positively impacts other areas of the operation.

For about as long as humans have raised cattle, they have dealt with the complex group of disease issues we now call bovine respiratory disease.

Bovine respiratory disease is the most common disease among feedlot cattle in the United States. It accounts for approximately 75% of feedlot morbidity and 50% to 70% of all feedlot deaths.

Shipping Fever, or Bovine Respiratory Disease, is the major health problem encountered by beef calves upon arrival at cattle feeding operations.

One hundred years ago, researchers at what is now Colorado State University began investigating a disease affecting cattle on the state's high-mountain ranches. The disease, which caused significant death loss, p