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

Depending on the size of the animal, viscosity of the product and administration protocols, a variety of needles might be needed. Here’s some guidelines to help decide.

Launching the new Center on Vaccine Evaluation and Alternatives for Antimicrobials, or CVEAA, Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine aims to support animal vaccine development and usage.

According to Iowa State University's David Verhoeven, vaccines using mRNA technology have been shown to reduce disease on farms, and it’s all but impossible for them to end up in your food.

Misinformation and conspiracy theories regarding the use of mRNA vaccines in livestock continue, despite efforts of the scientific community, who emphasize, "mRNA from a vaccine will NOT be passed along in meat."

As misinformation regarding the use of mRNA vaccines in livestock filter through social media, there are facts begging to be set straight.

Household units and mini fridges are often unsuitable for maintaining veterinary products, according to a recent study by Emmanuel Rollin, DVM, College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia.

Vaccination plans are only one pillar in an effective herd health program and should be viewed as a mechanism to minimize risk of disease.

A strong vaccination program can have a sizable impact on a herd, both in dollars spent and on the herd’s health.

The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences team is working toward a vaccine that would be easier to deliver to livestock and wildlife.

A treatment for sick cattle that almost always works….suddenly almost never works? It happens when bacteria find ways to defeat the antimicrobial.

Most pharmaceutical labels recommend storing products at a temperature between 35 degrees and 45 degrees Fahrenheit.

If a vaccine isn’t preventing disease, perhaps the money would be better spent on adding real value to calves.

The vaccine is made of small synthetic protein shells, called ‘virus like particles’ (VLPs), which mimic the FMDV outer shell and so stimulate an immune response.

APHIS’ Wildlife Services and its cooperators will begin distributing baits on or about August 2 across rural areas by airplanes and in suburban or urban areas by helicopters, vehicles and bait stations.

If a vaccine isn’t preventing disease, perhaps the money would be better spent on adding real value to calves.

If reproductive efficiencies seem to be slipping, the underlying cause may be the result of leptospirosis

Check to make sure you are handling, storing and using vaccines properly. Here's a quick tip sheet to make sure you do everything to keep vaccines effective.

Skin tests that can distinguish between cattle that are infected with tuberculosis (TB) and those that have been vaccinated against the disease have been created by an international team of scientists.

The USDA’s ORV program is designed to control rabies in wildlife such as raccoons and skunks.

When the rinderpest virus broke out in Africa in the 1890s, death loss in cattle herds across eastern and southern Africa reached 80 to 90%, triggering a massive famine, with millions of people dying across the region.

The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announces a finding of no significant impact related to oral rabies vaccine (ORV) field trials in New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia.

Completing a number of management techniques and vaccine protocols prior to the stress of weaning, comingling and transport will help assemble a calf crop more resilient to disease challenges.

How early vaccination can help improve the health of your cattle herd.

Protect against the devastating impact reproductive diseases can have on your operation’s success.

The sudden death of more than a dozen cows leads a Kansas ranch on a frustrating odyssey.

The sudden death of more than a dozen cows leads a Kansas ranch on a frustrating odyssey.

A good herd vaccination program enhances herd health in all cattle throughout the year.

Flexibility in protocols gives producers best opportunity to protect the unborn calf.

A new divisional patent issued to researchers at K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine could provide a nonantibiotic option for preventing beef cattle liver infections.

Management techniques can offset much of this cost and having a good vaccination program can maintain the health of a calf all the way through the production system.

With the New Year here, producers can take this opportunity to think back on their successes and challenges that occurred in 2015 and begin making plans to implement changes in certain management areas in 2016. As calvi